http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081220201815382
Credit-card data theft was really over a ‘piece of cake’
Saturday, December 20 2008 @ 08:18 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews From the Oh Good Grief! dept.:
A stolen Christmas cake led to a parcel of credit- card records from a bank being sent anonymously to a German newspaper, triggering a major data theft scare, prosecutors said Friday.
Two couriers admitted gobbling up the cake that was in a package addressed to the Frankfurter Rundschau daily last week, a spokeswoman for the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office said. In order to cover their tracks, the two drivers took another parcel meant for the Landesbank Berlin and simply affixed a new label with the name of the newspaper on it, she said.
They were unaware the parcel contained documents detailing credit- card transactions with card numbers for tens of thousands of customers as well as personal identification number (PIN) envelopes.
Source - The China Post
Short and simple, but it seems to hit the high points... The solution may be niche newspaper sections that concentrate on everything you need to know about a specific geography (Centennial Colorado) or topic (Used Cars) and an Internet site that lets you add or subtract sections as your interests change.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F20%2F2124218&from=rss
Are Newspapers Doomed?
Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 21, @08:11AM from the don't-even-say-it dept. The Media The Internet
Ponca City, We love you writes
"James Surowiecki has an interesting article in the New Yorker that crystalizes the problems facing print newspapers today and explains why we may soon be seeing more major newspapers filing for bankruptcy, as the Tribune Company did last week. 'There's no mystery as to the source of all the trouble: advertising revenue has dried up,' writes Surowiecki, but the 'peculiar fact about the current crisis is that even as big papers have become less profitable they've arguably become more popular,' with the blogosphere piggybacking on traditional journalism's content. Surowiecki imagines many possible futures for newspapers, from becoming foundation-run nonprofits to relying on reader donations to deep-pocketed patrons. 'For a while now, readers have had the best of both worlds: all the benefits of the old, high-profit regime — intensive reporting, experienced editors, and so on — and the low costs of the new one. But that situation can't last. Soon enough, we're going to start getting what we pay for, and we may find out just how little that is.'"
[From the article:
What Zell failed to mention was that his acquisition of the company had buried it beneath such a heavy pile of debt that any storm at all would likely have sunk it. But although Zell was making excuses for his own mismanagement, the perfect storm is real enough, and it is threatening to destroy newspapers as we know them.
... Papers’ attempts to deal with the new environment by cutting costs haven’t helped: trimming staff and reducing coverage make newspapers less appealing to readers and advertisers. It may be no coincidence that papers that have avoided the steepest cutbacks, like the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, have done a better job of holding onto readers. [So great reporting and fluff both succeed. Bob]
Psych students love this stuff.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/020121.html
December 20, 2008
College Newspaper Releases Documents on Virginia Tech Massacre
CNET: "One day after Virginia Tech released thousands of documents solely to families of victims in last year's massacre, the university's student newspaper made them public. On Thursday, the Collegiate Times posted the documents, which include e-mails sent from the account of gunman Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 fellow students and faculty members and then killed himself on April 16, 2007. The nearly 14,000 pages also include the police report on the massacre, e-mails from faculty sent to fellow professors and to Cho, a 2005 harassment complaint against Cho, post-massacre clean-up plans, administration plans on how to present the tragedy to the public, and post-massacre fundraising advice."
A nifty little tool for my website class. It identifies a tool (PHP) and lists alternatives. Smart!
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/sitonomy-com-the-anatomy-of-websites-revealed
Sitonomy.com - The Anatomy Of Websites Revealed
Sitonomy is a free service that is aimed at designers and programmers that wish to know how a particular website or blog has been put together. Basically, through the site it is possible to evaluate the different technologies that are employed anywhere just by furnishing the respective URL.
Upon doing so, a component-by-component analysis is displayed, and taking the produced information into account you can easily decide on which technologies will suit your own site or weblog best. Some of the aspects that are touched upon in the analysis include advertising networks, stats tools and programming languages.
Better than a lump of coal or would this be considered “cruel and unusual?'
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20081219/tc_afp/entertainmentitinternetmusicelvis_081219231250
Elvis lovers sing Christmas duets with 'The King' (AFP)
Posted on Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:12PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Sony BMG is using the magic of the digital age to let Elvis Presley lovers sing Christmas duets with their departed idol and send the songs in electronic holiday greeting cards.
Those wishing to join Elvis in singing "Blue Christmas" can start their recording sessions online at singwiththeking.com.
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