New media is bad for the brain
While a lot of our site is dedicated to protecting your personal computer, managing your on-line identity, and using the internet to your advantage, we have yet to tackle in depth a growing issue in...
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Truly no one is immune. Anyone who has ever had a snoopy significant other knows the importance of password safety. This past week, US President, Barack Obama, had his Twitter account hacked by someone...
View ArticleThe First Tweet and the American Declaration of Independence
You know you are in the Information Age when a historical infant, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet from 2006, is shelved next to a historical giant, the American Declaration of Independence,...
View ArticleCows on Twitter
“Dying to get into the pen for a milking. Not happening yet.” [linebreak] That’s what Jersey cow, Charge Mabel, tweets as she waits with the rest of the bovines to get into the milking pen. One-third...
View ArticleFired for Tweet
Hold that thought. No really. Hold that thought. We all have opinions. At the water cooler an opinion is between you, the person beside you, and the hearsay network of the person who cares enough to...
View ArticleAre we as connected as we think?
A great article appeared on the BBC website this past week discussing the most recent TED talks in which Harvard academic, Ethan Zuckerman, said that the Internet is not living up to its ‘promise.’ His...
View ArticleControversial South African threatens to shut Twitter
Phweeter: an imposter tweeter Julius Malema, the controversial youth leader of South Africa’s governing ANC (and recent hate speech convict), is battling a new front to salvage his reputation – this...
View ArticleBlogs shift with the times
A recent article in the New York Times, highlights an interesting shift in how people are sharing online. Self-published blogs, once a primary means for sharing personal stories, opinions, and, well,...
View ArticleConnecting Social Media and Canadian Supreme Court Ruling
A decision issued on October 19 by the Supreme Court of Canada stated that writers and publishers cannot be held liable for online publications that hyperlink to defamatory content. While the world of...
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Digital Tattoo experiences Twitter hijacking
In the age of passwords and countless online accounts, it would appear that even the most informed are at risk! Last week the Digital Tattoo Project fell victim to a Twitter hacking. We first became...
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Digital Tattoo experiences Twitter hijacking
In the age of passwords and countless online accounts, it would appear that even the most informed are at risk! Last week the Digital Tattoo Project fell victim to a Twitter hacking. We first became...
View ArticleDT Podcast: Episodes 3, Social Media and Santa Ono, is now available
The Digital Tattoo Podcast: Episode 3, Social Media and Santa Ono In this episode, we sit down with the President of the University of British Columbia and talk about everything social media. Professor...
View ArticlePresident Hacked
Truly no one is immune. Anyone who has ever had a snoopy significant other knows the importance of password safety. This past week, US President, Barack Obama, had his Twitter account hacked by someone...
View ArticleThe First Tweet and the American Declaration of Independence
You know you are in the Information Age when a historical infant, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet from 2006, is shelved next to a historical giant, the American Declaration of Independence,...
View ArticleCows on Twitter
“Dying to get into the pen for a milking. Not happening yet.” [linebreak] That’s what Jersey cow, Charge Mabel, tweets as she waits with the rest of the bovines to get into the milking pen. One-third...
View ArticleFired for Tweet
Hold that thought. No really. Hold that thought. We all have opinions. At the water cooler an opinion is between you, the person beside you, and the hearsay network of the person who cares enough to...
View ArticleAre we as connected as we think?
A great article appeared on the BBC website this past week discussing the most recent TED talks in which Harvard academic, Ethan Zuckerman, said that the Internet is not living up to its ‘promise.’ His...
View ArticleControversial South African threatens to shut Twitter
Phweeter: an imposter tweeter Julius Malema, the controversial youth leader of South Africa’s governing ANC (and recent hate speech convict), is battling a new front to salvage his reputation – this...
View ArticleBlogs shift with the times
A recent article in the New York Times, highlights an interesting shift in how people are sharing online. Self-published blogs, once a primary means for sharing personal stories, opinions, and, well,...
View ArticleConnecting Social Media and Canadian Supreme Court Ruling
A decision issued on October 19 by the Supreme Court of Canada stated that writers and publishers cannot be held liable for online publications that hyperlink to defamatory content. While the world of...
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