“Digital dirt”: It’s a relatively new term used to describe the unprofessional, often risky and even potentially scandalous information and images that people post about themselves online, from pictures of intoxication-induced escapades to blog rants about anything from professors to politics. Central Michigan University Director of Career Services Julia Barlow Sherlock is available to comment […]
With all the media talk about online governmental spying lately, a similar alarming issue involving private industry is starting to get some online traction.
Techdirt cites a recent study that shows more than a third of employers have eliminated a job candidate after digging up digital dirt through postings uncovered through online snooping of chat rooms, […]
This has been the stuff of Internet chat room complaints for years but there’s a video floating around the Net that documents, with a slideshow and full transcript, just how difficult it can be to cancel an account with AOL.
AOL has issued an apology and announced that the rep is no longer with the company.
The […]
It was an inevitable marriage: The merging of the huge scrapbooking craze with online blogging.
That’s the thrust of a site called Scrapblog, which it claims is the Net’s first online scrapbooking service. The site has advanced photo-sharing features, with the capability to add themes, stickers, graphics and blogging.
Visitors do not have to log in or […]
Google has released a new plug-in extension for Firefox that keeps Web browser settings synchronized on multiple computer systems. The plug-in synchronizes bookmarks, the history list of Web pages that have been visted, passwords, and cookies.
This means that your Firefox settings on your laptop will be the same on your desktop.
There is a slight […]
You know that old saying…by the time the media calls it a trend it’s long over? So it apparently is with the MySpace social networking site. Kids today seem to be moving to other sites, says this TechNewsWorld story. Among the ones most mentioned as MySpace replacements, Bebo and Facebook.
I’m sure the predators and perverts […]
Controversial social networking sites like MySpace abound in cyberspace. They're hugely popular with teens, who swap way too much personal information. That’s why parents need to get involved.
The Wired Safety site is filled with tips for parents and information about fighting online threats.
Blog Safety offers a very handy guide to the lingo and secret acronymns […]
Everybody is used to channel surfing on TV. A Web site scheduled to go live today called Stumble Upon offers a free, downloadable application that works with the Firefox Web browser to exentially do the same thing online.
As you surf and click the Net and find sites you like, the program finds and […]
This is huge for fans of the popular Skype Internet communications service. Through the end of the year, users can now use the so-called Skypeout feature, which allows users to make calls from their computer to regular and landline telephones. The company, owned by eBay, used to charge for computer-to-telephone calls. The free service is […]
Controversial social networking sites like MySpace abound in cyberspace. They’re hugely popular with teens, who swap way too much personal information. That’s why parents need to get involved.
The Wired Safety site is filled with tips for parents and information about fighting online threats.
Blog Safety offers a very handy guide to the lingo and secret acronymns […]
This is getting ridiculous. Between Google and Yahoo! and MSN and AOL and their various messaging applications, my browser’s toolbar is seriously bloated, taking up five rows of valuable desktop real estate. No matter how much I try to delete or uncheck as many options as I can find, the links and icons and buttons […]
AOL is still the biggest ISP on the broadband block. With 20.1 million subscribers, it’s well more than twice the size of the number two player, Comcast, with 8.1 million users. SBC is thuird with 6.5 million. Check out the entire list of the Top 24 U.S. ISPs by Subscriber.
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