My new blogger friend Juliana has had a very eventful life and has been in recovery for many years. She’s always positive and tries to add value to the world by being courteous, sincere, and by paying it forward. Juliana has a new blog on her own domain and she has asked what the implications… [Read more…]
Have you considered what will happen to your digital assets after you die? Have you made plans for disposition of blogs, web sites, photos, e-mail, financial data, social networking sites profiles, fan pages, etc.? Many sites make it very difficult for anyone other than the account holder to access them and that can create problems… [Read more…]
Lose It or Build It: Trust in Blogsphere and Beyond by Guest Author Jean View her Profile and 2 blogs thirdwavecyclingblog cyclewriteblog Trust is the glue that keeps us bonded to close friends and cherished family members. Trust keeps a society from totally collapsing into chaos. Nearly every day, we have to trust complete strangers… [Read more…]
The most effective way of promoting a blog within the WordPress.com community is to seek out other blogs in the same niche and form blog centered relationships with bloggers who share the same blogging interests. Forming blog centered relationships is a natural consequence of posting meaningful comments on posts in the blog you locate. There… [Read more…]
The blogosphere is full or talented poets and writers in every genera. Never never a day goes by here at WordPress.com or in the blogopshere at large that I don’t discover another 5 star writing or poetry blog. Social media and social networks are radically changing the way we attract readers to our blogs. In… [Read more…]
These days one can be either hired or fired based on what employers find on our Facebook pages and reputation management has become a focus for bloggers. The reality is that much of the web is designed, not so much to share information, as to sell it. It’s also a reality bloggers today, more than ever before, have many demands on their time and social media networking to create an authentic online presence can be a time drain.
Yesterday while Wordpress.com was experiencing some difficulties I downloaded a file containing all the intrusion attempts made on my computer. I was astonished to see how much work my Norton Internet Security has done to protect my computer from invasion.
Where are these attacks coming from? United States, China, Brazil, Germany, India, United Kingdom, Russia, Poland, Italy and Spain.
In 2009 a shift in malicious activity to emerging countries was noted and became more pronounced. For example, for the first time since Symantec began examining malicious activity by country in 2006, a country other than the United States, China, or Germany has ranked in the top three, as Brazil ranked third in malicious activity in 2009, behind the United States and China, respectively.
Did you know this? When surfing the web if you click an advertisement the web will conceals your identity. But if you click advertisements on social networking sites, your username will not be concealed, and it will be traced to your profiles page(s) on social networks in order to and acquire your personal information. It's the Victoria Day long weekend north of the 49th parallel and our visitors are discussing the recent Facebook privacy scandal. Some say there are far too many sophisticated hacks and criminals who know how to manipulate anything Facebook, or any other social networking apps can come up with in the way of protection. Maybe membership is just not worth it. Others say if you don’t want your information shared, don’t post it.
July 31, 2010
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