Granted this is something organizations
dread hearing, but if they don't acknowledge the message, they may
find the next person asking the question is a reporter. A review of
the Comments is interesting.
"As the owner of my own mail
domain, I have the luxury of being able to create unique email
addresses to use when registering with web sites and providers. So
when I started to receive virus-infected emails recently, at an
address that I created exclusively for use with a well-known provider
of tools for the Systems Administration community (and which I have
never used anywhere else), I knew immediately that either their
systems or their subscriber list had been compromised. I passed my
concerns on to a couple of their employees whom I know socially, and
they informed me that they had passed it up the food chain. I have
never received any sort of official response, nor seen any public
notification or acceptance of this situation. When I received
another virus-infected email at that same address this week, I posted
a polite note on their Facebook page. Again, nothing. If it was a
company in any other field, I might expect this degree of
nonchalance, but given the fact that this company is staffed by —
and primarily services — geeks, I'm a little taken aback by their
apparent reticence. So, since the polite, behind-the-scenes approach
appears to have no effect, I now throw it out to the group
consciousness: Am I being paranoid, or are these folks being
unreasonable in refusing to accept or even acknowledge that a problem
might exist? What would you recommend as my next course of action?"
A new legal specialty?
February 24, 2013
New
on LLRX - Another NY court on discovery of social media evidence
Via LLRX.com
- Another
NY court on discovery of social media evidence - Attorney Nicole
Black brings context to the impact of the proliferation of social
media accounts among the majority of adults in the United States.
The information from these accounts has become a prime source for
lawyers to mine for evidence to support their clients' cases.
Toward an Automated Lawyer?
February 24, 2013
New
on LLRX - LegalTech 2013: Old habits die hard, but die they do
Via LLRX.com
- LegalTech
2013: Old habits die hard, but die they do - Attorney Nicole
Black's article on the LegalTech 2013 conference, sponsored every
year by American Lawyer Media, updates all of us who could not attend
on the latest legal technologies and innovations.
[From the article:
… nearly every e-discovery software
company that exhibited at LegalTech offered a cloud computing option.
… Also relevant is that the "bring
your own device" (BYOD) phenomenon is now a reluctantly accepted
reality for most large firm IT departments.
… in recent years, rapid
technological change, increased competition from non-traditional
sources (such as do-it-yourself websites like Legal Zoom and Rocket
Lawyer), and the ailing economy have drastically affected the
profitability of doing business as usual. In other words, both the
cues (the demand for traditional legal representation) and the
rewards (profits) for delivering legal services as we've always done
are decreasing.
Since it's so easy to get an answer,
I'll have to switch my exams to a Jeopardy format...
February 24, 2013
Butler
Business Accelerator Evaluates Q&A Platforms using New
Intelligence Index
News
release: "A new
study using the Butler University Q&A Intelligence Index
measures how various mobile Q&A platforms deliver quality,
accurate answers in a timely manner to a broad variety of questions.
Based on the results of our analysis, ChaCha led all Q&A
platforms on mobile devices. Results of the study are based upon
review of a large set of responses from each of the major Q&A
platforms, coupled with a comparison of disparate Q&A platforms
that serve answers in different ways. Our methodology included the
creation of a new metric, termed the Butler University Q&A
Intelligence Index, which measures the likelihood that a user can
expect to receive a correct answer in a timely manner to any random
question asked using natural language. We asked questions via mobile
services and randomized the questions to cover both popular and
long-tail knowledge requests."
For my Website studnets...
Last week, I talked about how
important jQuery is to any modern web developer and why it’s
awesome. This week, I think it’s time we got our hands dirty with
some code and learnt how to actually make use of jQuery in our
projects.
… It is assumed however that as a
web developer you have a pretty good knowledge of HTML and CSS
(and here’s out helpful
free xHTML guide if not!).
The most important blog post ever!
(Just like all the others)
Tabloid
Chic: How Racy Headlines Unlock Money and Power
Once headed for a bland retirement
within newspapers, the headline is making a striking comeback online,
where tabloid come-ons increasingly convert to fame and fortune.
In its revived form, the headline is
finding relevance far beyond news media as it becomes a key weapon in
fields like politics and business. No longer the exclusive province
of copy editors, it is now the cornerstone of emailed political
appeals, the fulcrum of crowdsourcing capital on Kickstarter, and
arguably the basis of an entire communications medium, the
all-headlines microblogging system Twitter.
Coming soon: My Guide to Anti-Social
Media
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