Allen Lew’s Thoughts

Chronicles of the American Civil War and the The Blog of Henry David Thoreau-Both take excerpts from real life journals and news stories from one day in history and put it on a blog. Very cool.
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Blogs ‘essential’ to a good career- Says blogs can help you network, get a job, train you, and help you get noticed. It’s really good for “fields like business and law,” says USNews (for whom I worked for thanks to working on the Calstuff blog). Good reversal of fortune, as last year people were [...]

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Firefox 1.5.0.2: Finally an Intel Mac version and a fix for that annoying Gmail crash, among other fixes.
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Metroblogging Azeroth: The town world (thanks Tony) of Azeroth in the game World of Warcraft has more than 5 million people in it, which would make it the 28th most populous city in the world and . There’s also a lot interesting stuff going on there, so why not have a blog about [...]

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So we’ve all done a few of those surveys and our friends do that too. But did you know those kinds of survey’s could lead to people *gasp* finding out our interests *gasp*, particularly *gasp* online predators *gasp*?
From a Dateline NBC article on Myspace:
Stafford: You dont think you gave him any private information?
Amber: No. [...]

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From Slate:
Two weeks ago, the FBI’s chief information officer admitted that the bureau couldn’t afford to provide e-mail addresses for 8,000 of its 30,000 employees.
Looks like they should try to sign up for Gmail for your domain.
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