This week on Techplanations–Don’t get Phished!

In case you missed my column on The Vancouver Observer… [From Phishing: How to Avoid Getting Hooked | The Vancouver Observer - Vancouver Olympics News Blogs Events Reviews] Which not only covers how to avoid getting hooked by phishing scams, but also announcing the winners of last week’s contest!

WordPress 2.9 is out and this is solid update to upgrade to now

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This afternoon WordPress 2.9 went from Release Candidate to just plain old released and, yeah this is a good one. I’ve been using 2.9 in it’s early beta incarnations for months now and have been quite happy with it. I haven’t noticed a huge improvement in speed or stability, but then again I’m not benchmarking [...]

What skills will make the best journalists? Tech ninjas to rule the roost?

Journalists seem to always be taking it on the chin. If it isn’t that their craft is dying (which I don’t think is true) or their publications are failing (okay that one is true), now it’s that in order to be agile journalists, keep employed, and be relevant they need to be programers too? Wow, [...]

Time for a new look at “content federations?” Building our hand-crafted content together.

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The big topic at the moment, even as evidenced even by Fever/Chill Pill– Is Mike Arrington’s post on the demise of hand crafted content—The End Of Hand Crafted Content—then followed by several sage responses: Doc Searls Weblog · The Revolution Will Not Be Intermediated Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried The [...]

Lately on Techplanations: Headset Contest, Gifts for Geeks, Basic computer fixes, and Telelympics Part 1

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Things have been pretty active over on my Vancouver Observer column, Techplanations. WIth the holidays coming up I had to cover gift ideas for geeks: Getting Great Gifts for Geeks and since we all need to stop talking on our cellphones while starting in BC starting in January I have a review of some Motorola [...]

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