I think the most important parts of this article isn't the obvious spam-virus connection, but the discussion towards the end talking about e-mail 2.0 and moving towards more integrated messaging and the biggest barrier is Outlook and the MSFT hegemony PCWorld.com – Spam Gets Dangerous

This underscores several things: a) Companies that sell network gear to home users have to improve out of the box security b) Most users don't know nearly enough about the systems they install c) We need to be vigilent ourselves and help our friend and neighbors practice safer computing. Researcher Finds Hole In Popular Linksys…

Although WiMax is a long way off, perhaps these dicussions could open up WiFi over the UHF band. Groups debate wireless spectrum plans | CNET News.com

More press on Wikis, this one from Forbes. So at this point a bunch of middle to senior managers up to CIOs are probably going to start asking aroung their IT departments about this. At least the forward thinking ones will. There has been a good amount of talk about the wiki as collaboration light….

Wow, this is a really fresh approach to Knowledge Management (KM), think about how people actually work, what their roles are, and how that helps the organizations. According to the book The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations (Harvard Business School Press, June 2004) There are a few…

Robin has done a good job and condencing these down. It's interesting last night a couple friends and I were working on our presentation for an upcoming workshop we're doing. One of my friends is an SEO expert and we talked about the pitfalls of bad SEO practices and how metatags aren't as important as…

This is a nice look back and forward on probably one of the most useful collaboration technologies since e-mail:IM BBC NEWS | Technology | Instant messaging grows up

A landmark in computing and cryptography. When I think of Colossus I think of Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. BBC NEWS | Technology | Return of Colossus marks D-Day

This is completely, 100% true. My feed garners the most views of any other part of my whole website combined (thank you to all subscribers!). So as this VC says, all the time spent on tweaking your template, getting links set up, etc may just be a (small) waste of time. Granted, most folks will…

I saw this posted on Scobleizer and it is fancinating. Best way to explain it is that it is a kind of Zeitgeist for current news. I've only spent about five minutes looking at it, so I think tracking it over a day or so will really give me an idea of its value. Probably…