Monthly Archives: April 2010

Google datasharing and what do about it

robinna/ April 29, 2010/ Technology, privacy, meetups/conferences, webdesign, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Institute of Disruptive Studies… love it… (sorry, I was having a monty python moment…) —– The project, called GoogleSharing, is a Firefox add-on that uses an anonymous proxy service that gives Google false information when someone uses services that don’t require an account, such as its search, news, and images services, said Moxie Marlinspike , a security consultant and penetration

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More scary facebook privacy news

robinna/ April 26, 2010/ social media, privacy, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

You know, facebook, you keep this up, users will eventually leave… Really. myspace probably never thought it would happen to them, either. —————– Facebook’s new system for connecting together the web seems to have a serious privacy hole, a web developer has discovered. Some people report that they are able to see the public “events” that Facebook users have said

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whitehouse.gov moves to drupal

robinna/ April 26, 2010/ opensource/ 0 comments

Obama’s campaign site was running Expression Engine… interesting to see this move to opensource. (yay! opensource…. altho’ I do have a special spot in my heart for EE, it’s where I cut my CMS teeth… where I began to be brave enough to contribute solutions to a public forum … LOL) Last week, WhiteHouse.gov announced its release of custom code

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Tightening down your facebook privacy

robinna/ April 23, 2010/ social media, privacy, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

As part of making the web more “social”, Facebook recently announced a whole slew of changes in April 2010. In addition to that, some new things popped up under privacy… so you might want to take a look. For one, it now looks like you can control who sees your gaming activity to a greater extent (my non-gaming fb friends,

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GALILEO birthday coming up

robinna/ April 21, 2010/ Libraries/ 0 comments

I totally meant to post this earlier. On Sept. 21, 2010 it will be the 15th anniversary of GALILEO.Hopefully, it okay to crosspost this…—————-Happy New Year, GALILEO Users, Believe it or not, GALILEO will turn 15 on September 21, 2010. Way back in 1995, long before Google, GALILEO helped bring the University System of Georgia libraries, students, faculty, and staff

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More facebook changes (includes privacy)

robinna/ April 21, 2010/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

This is being reported from the facebook developers conference today (I’m condensing…) — no mention of privacy as this is geared towards those writing applications: The most important mechanism is the [new] like button. No dialog, no login….By lowering the friction, we’ll dramatically increase sharing. Little friction, just an iframe. No register with Facebook, no nothing. Just the iframe. ….We

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Teaching this month on…

robinna/ April 20, 2010/ social media, my projects, twitter/ 0 comments

April 19, 2pm; (Encore April 23 @ 10am): Get Blogging: Learn about blogging and microblogging (Twitter!) and get started! — w/ Amy Watts (part of the 10 Weeks to a Web2.0 U; Social media & Web 2.0 training program for UGA Libraries) I am kind of in love with my graphics at the moment. Cute and springy, aren’t they? April

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Learning in an open access world (free conference)

robinna/ April 16, 2010/ Technology/ 0 comments

from apple & maclearning.org — sounds interesting! http://edseminars.apple.com/event/2610—-Learning in an open-access world. Join colleagues from across the country in exploring how open access is transforming learning in higher education. Apple and MacLearning.org invite you to AcademiX 2010 for a look at open access, the new teaching methods that are evolving with it, and the Apple technologies that help make it

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10 Weeks to 2.0 U

robinna/ April 8, 2010/ training / tutorials/ 0 comments

Well, it’s official. The 10Weeks to a Web2.0 You Social Media Training Program kicks off today. Right now, this is just for library staff, but we are collecting up all of the training tools, presentations, etc. to create a website which anyone can use. I’m co-teaching blogging and then image editing (the fun stuff, right?) I thought about switching out blogging for

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10weeks to a Web2.0 You Social Media Training Program

robinna/ April 7, 2010/ Technology, Libraries, social media, my projects, productivity, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Well, it’s official. The 10Weeks to a Web2.0 You Social Media Training Program kicks off today. Right now, this is just for library staff, but we are collecting up all of the training tools, presentations, etc. to create a website which anyone can use. I’m co-teaching blogging and then image editing (the fun stuff, right?) I thought about switching out

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