Author: fioritto

Are there any WiFi-enabled criminals…

Are there any WiFi-enabled criminals out there?  Someone would like to speak with you; please read: As many of you are quite well aware, whenever you sit down at a conference or hotel or park or cafe or harbor with “open WiFi”, your network activity is possibly being recorded and reviewed by someone else very close to you.  It doesn’t…

Article on blogs from the…

Article on blogs from the Chicago Tribune: Firms find way to avoid getting blogged downOriginally used by individuals for online diaries, the Weblog format is being adopted by more employers as a way to replace the e-mails, faxes and phone calls that slow office life.

Thoughts on micro-content, metadata and…

Thoughts on micro-content, metadata and trends. My investors, my readers and a variety of other people keep trying to get me to explain what I’m interested and why I’m interested in it. Here’s a first shot at this. Thanks to Steph, Kevin Marks and others on #joiito for a first pass edit. I’ve put it on the wiki as well…

Private RSS Feeds [1].

Private RSS Feeds. From Silverorange: “We?ve been experimenting with security options for RSS feeds for our intranet product. However, we found that there weren?t many resources or guidelines for how encryption or authentification should be handled (either in feeds or in readers/aggregators). I did some testing and came up with the following results for HTTPS/SSL encryption and HTTP Authentification in…

Lawrence weather site in all…

Lawrence weather site in all CSS. At work, we recently launched a new standalone weather site, 6newslawrence.com/weather. Photoshop guru and illustrator extraordinaire Dan Cox did the beautiful design work, including the Lawrence-skyline panorama that changes based on the weather forecast; I coded the site into HTML/CSS and did the backend. It’s proof (we hope) that relatively complex layouts are possible…

Google Tricks & Tips -…

Google Tricks & Tips – Stuff you Bloggers need to know. Steve Covell has a good post on how to use Google to search just blogs, or just law blogs.  Inspired by his love of Google (and his specific recommendation) I have purchased Google Hacks, which contains a wealth of information on how use Google productively. [Ernie the Attorney]