Four short links: 15 February 2011
White House Will Propose New Digital Copyright Laws (CNet) — If the Internet were truly empowering citizenry and bringing us this new dawn of digital democracy, the people who run it would be able to...
View ArticleFour short links: 10 March 2011
Everybody is Spamming Everybody Else on MTurk — one researcher found >40% of HITs are spammy, but this author posted a Mechanical Turk HIT to supply recommendations for visitors to a non-existent...
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Facebook comments: Fewer and better, or just fewer?
Alistair Croll and Sean Power recently reviewed how embedded Facebook comments affect the number of comments on posts. They used TechCrunch as a test case, comparing comment totals, Facebook likes,...
View ArticleFour short links: 21 June 2011
tmux — GNU Screen-alike, with vertical splits and other goodies. (via Hacker News) Gamifying Education (Escapist) — a more thoughtful and reasoned approach than crude badgification, but I’d still feel...
View ArticleFour short links: 30 September 2011
Fingerprinting Cameras Through Sensor Noise — using the pattern of noise consistent between images taken from the same camera to uniquely identify the device. (via Pete Warden) Stopping Bots with...
View ArticleFour short links: 10 May 2012
Gravity in the Margins (Got Medieval) — illuminating illuminated manuscripts with Mario. (via BoingBoing) Hours Days, Who’s Counting? (Jon Udell) — What prompted me to check? My friend Mike Caulfield,...
View ArticleFour short links: 6 February 2013
Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting (PDF) — scholarly paper on how to citespam your paper up Google Scholar’s results list. Fortunately calling...
View ArticlePhishing in Facebook’s Pond
A recent blog post inquired about the incidence of Facebook-based spear phishing: the author suddenly started receiving email that appeared to be from friends (though it wasn’t posted from their usual...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 June 2014
PirateBox 1.0 — turns a wireless router into a filesharing joy. v1.0 has a responsive ui, among other things for use on tablets and phones. Dystopia Tracker — keep on top of which scifi dystopic...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 July 2015
Spam Under Half of Email (PDF) — Symantec report: There is good news this month on the email-based front of the threat landscape. According to our metrics, the overall spam rate has dropped to 49.7%....
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