Internet Family Safety Guide Available FREE Just in Time for Back to School
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- Written on: July 25th, 2008
Symantec was doing free security checkups on computers at BlogHer 08 and had a free family online safety guide they were distributing as well.
With kids heading back to the classrooms in less than a month, online safety is something that parents should not overlook.
Sometimes its pretty easy to just say that your kids know more about the web than you do. The cool thing about Symantec’s guide is that it gives you the rough overview and if there is an area in which you would like more information, there are links to sites that specialize in those areas. Read More
Twitter Purge Would Have Made Stalin Proud
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- Written on: July 24th, 2008
Today Twitter launched a purge that would have made Stalin proud. In a single sweep they blasted the “spammers” who were manipulating the Twitter system and posting irrelevant tweets to people’s time lines.
There is no doubt in my mind that there are people gaming Twitter and there is nothing wrong with Twitter dispatching these spammers with haste. But when Twitter started messing with my valid network of friends and colleagues, then they crossed the line.
This morning my Twitter followers dropped from about 169 to a mere 81. I’m sure a few of those were spammers. However, it was odd that after adding more than 70 new followers from BlogHer alone I would drop so low.
After some research, I found that it was not a spammer purge that zapped my network of Twits. Twitter for some reason blasted relationships that were perfectly valid. Relationships that had active conversations. Relationships that were working the way Twitter intended.
