Archive for the ‘Websites’ Category
9
Nov
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Websites. Tagged: geocities, Internet, page, web, yahoo. 1 Comment
I remember setting up my first Geocities webpage back when I was in college. In 1995 anyone who could make their own webpage was some kind of technical wizard. I spent a lot of time hand coding html files with a text editor. Creating a website is a completely different process now. This is the [...]
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21
Aug
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Privacy, Social Networks, Websites. Tagged: beyond, death, digital, Internet, life, networks, social. 1 Comment
My friend Evan Carroll is working on an interesting project called The Digital Beyond. This project seeks to explore what happens to our online data after we die. We spend a lot of time creating gigabytes worth of data on all of our favorite social networks. What happens to that data when we pass on? [...]
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7
Aug
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Security, Social Networks, Websites. Tagged: ddos, Internet, networks, Security, social, twitter. Leave a Comment
PC Mag Editor Lance Ulanoff writes about who killed Twitter. The answer is that we are the ones killing it through a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. The DDoS problem is a whale of a different color, however. All you people who I’ve warned over and over again to install or update your security [...]
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13
Jul
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Social Networks, Websites. Tagged: airline, broken, guitar, luggage, taylor, twitter, united, youtube. 1 Comment
One of the many ways in which the internet powers individuals is the ability to take concerns public. Dave Carroll entrusted United Airlines with a $3500 guitar and they destroyed it. Fed up with bad customer support he decided to take his situation public. The speed at which information travels across the internet never ceases [...]
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14
Jun
Posted by Douglas in Websites. Tagged: blogger, blogs, google, google apps, local church, Technology, wordpress. 1 Comment
Derek Leek (Conference Webmaster) and I were able to lead a technology workshop last week during annual conference. The title of the workshop was “Web Prescense, Web Schmesence. What the heck is a website and why do I need it?” We had a very interesting discussion with approximately 75 clergy, laity and a few conference [...]
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