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Phishing: España es el séptimo paÃs más afectado del mundo (EEUU, el primero)
Según el "Internet Security Intelligence Briefing", de VeriSign y otros estudios, los ataques de phishing se lanzan principalmente desde 37 paÃses. España ocupa el séptimo puesto en el ranking de paÃses atacados y USA el primero con el 44% de los ataques. Según S21sec, en España el Phishing seguirá aumentando debido a la mejora continua de la calidad y técnica de los ataques. Además, la tendencia apunta hacia un aumento del público objetivo de estos ataques para alcanzar asà a (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on April 9, 2005 at 10:56 p.m..
Comics as Event Horizon
Friend and ally on the sequential narrative landscape, Laim McSharp is just releasing a fascinating anthology of work by the artist and writers at
Mamtor. He asked me to write a preface, and I was happy to oblige. (I've recently learned that the people in comics journalism can be extremely suspicious - and sometimes even publish their accusations as fact - so let me disclose here that I am not a profit participant in Mamtor or this collection.)We underestimate a medium at our own peril. Particularly one as unassuming and kid-friendly From
rushkoff.blog on April 9, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..
Something you loved in Paris
It's hard to believe one quarter of my time here in Paris has passed already. I don't feel like I've even begun to do all the things I want, never mind the things I don't know I should be doing! Before it's too late, I'd like to hear some recommendations for interesting things you've done or experienced in Paris (or France, for that matter, if I could find the same wine in Paris, etc.). Is there a little restaurant you loved? An amazing unpasteurised milk cheese you tasted once? A small store that sold lovely little things? Something you just don't thi From
megnut on April 9, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..
Speaking of French cheese
According to this article, French mobilise to save cheeses under threat of extinction France is losing cheeses as producers are dying and taking their cheese making secrets to the grave. A worrisome trend is looming in this country of cheese-lovers, where the nation's rich palette of 1,000 cheeses is being nibbled away at with the annual demise of several varieties..."The Mont-d'Or galette, which had been produced for some 400 years, disappeared this summer following the death of the last producer who knew the secret of how to make it." That does sound worrisome. What's also w From
megnut on April 9, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..
Nine-Year Sentence for Spammer
Jeremy Jaynes becomes the first junk e-mailer to face hard time, but the judge agrees to postpone the sentence until an appeal can determine any outstanding constitutional questions. From
Wired News on April 9, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Ruling Unlikely to Deter Gaming
U.S. trade regulators celebrated victory this week following a World Trade Organization ruling backing prohibitions on online gambling. But industry observers say the decision won't be enough to brake the ballistic growth of net gaming. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on April 9, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Captcha Spammers! Fugggedaboddit
It's a new spam free day for CogDogBlog and our other affiliated MovableType 2.661 blogs here. I've successfully integrated
James Seng's captcha plugin, so that all comment posts require a human to type in a randomly generated security code that appears on screen as a graphic image or
'captcha'. Spambots cannot automatically read these, so any spam that dribbles in is human posted. Spammers thrive on automation, not manual effort. From
cogdogblog on April 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
Auto Wreck
The queue looked lonely, so I thought I'd share with you kids a short story I wrote many years ago... From
kuro5hin.org on April 9, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Info overload functions as roadblock to better memory
This is a fantastic
article that not only points out that the lack of focus and attention is the cause of many memory failures, but it also offers a handy guide for making your brain healthy. "The problem is people are losing their ability to pay attention. Attention - focus - builds memory..." From
elearningpost on April 9, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..
Teaching as performance
This First Monday
article continues the debate on knowledge as a thing vs. knowledge as performance. The author beautifully captures the futility of trying to textualize everything: "Despite this centuries–long trend, however, upper–end management skill has tended to remain in the realm of the interpersonal and of instinctive know–how. In this realm, information technologies have tended not to function as automating technologies, extracting human knowledge and enshrining it in From
elearningpost on April 9, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..
The Online Books Page, U. Pennsylvania Library
Here's another resource for online books, "Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web...." The listings are searchable by author or title and can be browsed by Authors, Titles, and Subjects. "The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all." ___JH From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on April 9, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..
SpamNymphomania
My (non-)friends in the Texas Hold 'em camp are knocking about again. Shoot, maybe one of these days I may get around to learning this game of poker, though it surely will never be via one of their #$*@-ing web sites. These spammers are nymphomaniacs in the sense they just cannot seem to stop shoving their URL encrusted packages into any web form they can find on our sites. That is, they cannot help themselves to stick their unwanted, undesired, PPC (Porn-Pills Casino) into places on our site where we offer a place to provide feedback or to request information. Since I From
cogdogblog on April 9, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..
Education as Toaster
Education is a toaster. We put bread in, and toast comes out. Teachers are the toaster operators. The field of educational technology is responsible for the engineering and marketing of the toasters. While this is a rather facile -- even... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on April 8, 2005 at 11:55 p.m..
Microsoft Emulates Wikipedia (Ross Mayfield)
Funny how Encarta doesn't come up in the Wikipedia vs. Brittanica debates. Well, now it seems they are enabling wiki-ish editing of Encarta encyclopedia articles. Jimmy Wales puts it perfectly: Hmm, now people have a choice. They can donate... From
Corante: Social Software on April 8, 2005 at 11:49 p.m..
I Like (Stealing? Borrowing?) Your Colors
Do you like someone else's web design color scheme? Curious as to what color codes are used? Try
Red Alt - I Like Your Colors. Just enter a URl, and it fetches the colors used as defined in HTML or CSS (some sites seem not to give them up as easily, perhaps with the @import method of CSS?). For example, I ran it on the
BurningBird site and found out shades or reds and brown's in Shelly's current bird theme:
cogdogblog on April 8, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..
Is Phoenix the Future?
Interview with Gary A. Berg, dean of extended education at California State University Channel Islands, who, according to this article, "eceived extensive access to University of Phoenix administrators and faculty members." Observes Berg, "what a tenured faculty member from a traditional university would notice most is their lessened influence... here is nothing like a faculty senate. Faculty members at the University of Phoenix are completely and very intentionally left out of operational decisions." The future represented by the University of Phoenix - "increased use of part-time faculty, in From
OLDaily on April 8, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
ID and SCORM
Some good points in this presentation, but author David Wiley takes a stance that is more to the middle of the road for my liking (Scott Leslie calls him a "a lone voice in the wilderness," and he probably is in the ADL crowd, but from my perspective he is more establishment - it's all point of view, I guess). Anyhow, Wiley sets up a nice distinction between the "Centralized / Top-down Camp" (which favours intelligent tutoring systems, automated LO assembly systems, advanced visualization techniques and the like) and the "Decentralized / Bottom-up Camp" (which favours large scale self-org From
OLDaily on April 8, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
How to Let Educational Systems Talk
Good background on the new IMS General Web Services spec describing the three major scenarios described and what they mean in general terms. Despite the heroic effort to make arcane topics accessible I think average readers will still find it too technical. But that's OK because average readers won't care - the differences between the models described are like the differences between the how your computer connects to a web server as opposed to an instant messaging server. But if you are writing software intended to be accessed by a learning management system, then you need to follow From
OLDaily on April 8, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
Shock of the Old 2005
Good presentation by Derek Morrison (and read the
slides (2.62 Mb PDF); the notes by themselves don't really do the job). Morrison writes, "there are now so many opportunities and services arising 'out there' that it's perfectly feasible that if institutions are found wanting in their future IT/e-learning infrastructure and services provision that the teachers and students will migrate to systems and services about which institutions have no knowledge and over which they certainly will not be From
OLDaily on April 8, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
Education as Toaster
Well, it's an interesting analogy. "We put bread in, and toast comes out. Teachers are the toaster operators. The field of educational technology is responsible for the engineering and marketing of the toasters." Taken to a certain point, the analogy - intending to contrast the division of labour in other industries with the artisan nature of learning - works. But on the other hand - who wants mere toast? Via
Trey Martindale. By Nathan Lowell, Cognitive Dissonance, April 8, 2005 [
OLDaily on April 8, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
Sony Patents Imaginary Brainwave Broadcasting
According to this item, Sony has patented "the concept of beaming ultrasonic signals into a person's brain to transmit recorded images or sounds." Now of course, "no experiments had been conducted, and that the patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us." Given that you don't actually have to invent anything to get a patent, the author wonders (as do I) "Why aren't science fiction writers loaded, then?" By Joel Johnson, Gizmodo, April 8, 2005 [
OLDaily on April 8, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..