I just saw that Skype is offering free calls to the US and Canada for the remainder of 2006.
That means that if you’ve got a high speed connection to the internet and some PC headsets, you’ve got a very viable phone banking setup without the usual overhead of multiple phone lines, etc.
Anyone using Skype for phone banking?
I recently saw this picture from our last COaTI program and thought I’d share it.
If memory serves, Alyce was asking me if there were too many people for the group to solve the ice-breaker challenge they were currently working on. This was Alyce’s second time attending the COaTI program, so she was sitting out the ice-breaker that she’d already had the pleasure of solving once before.
From gapingvoid
We were at a conference last week where the beginnings of a “discussion” regarding whether reputation (think Ebay seller reps) and recommendations (think Amazon’s “other people who bought that bought these too”) were web 1.0 or 2.0. Thankfully we cut it off before it could spiral away and leave the majority of the group scratching their heads in amusement.
Does my upgrade to the lastest version of Wordpress make this a 2.0 blog?
Just a friendly reminder to all of you that encryption isn’t always secure: DailyTech - Convicted Man Sues HP After Encryption Failed to Keep Him Out of Prison
In a nutshell - his laptop was siezed by the FBI. They either broke the encryption using their own methods, or got help from HP. Etiher way, the accessed files he thought were secure.
The moral of the story? Encryption doesn’t equal Security.
Check out security.resist.ca for more information on digital security.
As of now, my fancy-pants, community-generated, emergent-behavior data-sorting heuristic is: a calendar. If I haven’t gotten to something in a week, it dies. Stick that in your attention economy and smoke it. I’m re-booting.
from “An Entirely Other Day” comes an interesting take on getting rid of information overload.