Friday, 2 May 2008
In article <45f1c5881df12c0666ae2c61401e95be@jiglu-wc>, ... (Terry Williams) wrote:
*From:* Terry Williams <...>
*To:* Anorak Nation <...>
*Date:* 01 May 2008 08:45:24 +0000Eric Tesug <...> said:
Silver Surfers day? 50connect lists its top ten useful websitesWHAT! Not a radio site in the list. Where is:
http://www.anoraknation.com/ ?
On Youtube ?
In article <005401c8abeb$2cf2e800$a600a8c0@video2>, ... (Alan Milewczyk) wrote:
*From:* "Alan Milewczyk" <...>
*To:* "Anorak Nation" <...>
*Date:* 02 May 2008 00:26:10 +0000http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2008/05/bbc_reports_facebook_vu
lnerabi.php
The key point is the external applications Alan. Now you don't need to add external apps, but if you do the wording is:
"Granting access to information is required to add applications. If you are not willing to grant access to your information, do not add this application."
So the user can decide what to do.
Equally, the rest is as basic as calling a radio station – saying you're having an affair and wondering why the wife finds out when all her mates phone her to say you have admitted it on-air.
You would be a plank to give our all your info to an agony aunt when calling with the above info – so why do the same thing on FB, as it were.
So let's use me as an example:
On my FB profile is the following info,
Contact Info
Email: ...
Skype: ericwiltsher
Land Phone: 4210527871991
Current Town: Poprad, Slovakia
Website:
http://ericwiltsher.blogspot.com
http://www.mediazoo.co.uk
... is shown on AN, so no secret there
Skype is the same, available to the public, but I decide who to add
Land Line is work, not hard to find
Current Town, anyone can get that with ease
The two web sites are available from Google – nothing good there.
My point being, in most case the info that is in places like FB is the same that can be gained from Google – not if you want to put your bank info there you have to be a few crumbs short of a picnic.
It is a good wake-up call story for those using the internet, that I agree, but to me it also clearly shows how the media lacks full knowledge about such areas!
YES, run the story. However, also qualify where the real issues are and inform the public that you should not give out info freely about yourself.
BTW, let's not forget how many millions are scammed from people who receive letters and send off £25 to receive there gift worth £1,000. Does that mean Royal Mail should be exposed for a flaw in its delivery method?
Eric
Talking about Silver Surfer – check this out
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=260239000&id=260238997&s=143444
David
In article <011b01c8ac51$e5393840$a600a8c0@video2>, ... (Alan Milewczyk) wrote:
And, of course, I forgot that there is one program used daily by
millions of people that's riddled with all sorts of vulnerabilities
– that being Windows!A
Hum yes, and to avoid problems we need to know we should have a firewall.
Eric
In article <8067b18b2cf295301373410f30973745@jiglu-wc>, ... (David *) wrote:
Talking about Silver Surfer _ check this out
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=260239
000&id=260238997&s=143444David
Bums, it needs iTunes.
:-(
Eric
Quoting a previous tesug contribution:-
And, of course, I forgot that there is one program used daily by
millions of people that's riddled with all sorts of vulnerabilities
– that being Windows!
Hum yes, and to avoid problems we need to know we should have a
firewall.
And the latest Service Pack and updates.
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Quoting a previous Oscar contribution:-
I'm afraid I don't have any suggestions for you at the moment. Things
are, as you indicate, rather bleak.
Sigh. This is not good news.
Nick Abbot is
having his style severely cramped.
It is painful to listen to. His is about the last show I can listen to on LBC. What personality originally attracted me to listening to others has now been so beaten out of them that it's just like listening to the same person regardless of when I dip in. I'm sure if Globule-tech could replace them all with some autoresponder sounding like Steven Hawkin then it would.
My
current LBC favourite is AntHony Davis on weekend overnights but he is
best when in a funny mood and that happens less often now than before.
He has done some stand-ins on earlier shifts but often seems to get more
serious than on his regular slot.
He was sounding good when he was 'in for' Clive recently. Indeed, since he wasn't really allowed to say he was 'in for' Clive, I was listening assuming that Clive had gone. What a mess. I never ever dreamt that talking radio could get as robotic, bland and bad as music radio.
They do lots more "Talking amongst
themselves" in the studio and rely less on callers.
This was the format from the off for City Talk, but with the added bonus of constantly 'menuing' and barkering for callers that never come.
Still listen to Iain on Virgin whenever I can as
well.
See, now I just can't seem to get into him any more. I have a phobia when it comes to Virgin anyway – can't stand their bland music – so I have to force myself to listen. But, I'm not sold on him, although he does seem to have the cult following actually following him.
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* Christopher England just said that *
Quoting a previous Oscar contribution:-
Perhaps the most significant thing is how Nick's show is affected by
self-important idiots standing over his shoulder and breathing down his
neck all the time with an endless list of don'ts and more don'ts. He
needs to be given freedom to do the show he likes to do, his clips are
important to him and the Carol ones were always among the ones he used
the most.
Here here!
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Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-
Have you seen this, Christopher?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Imagine the possibilties!
See now, I hadn't really looked into how the Wii Remote worked. Stupidly, I'd thought the sensor thing I had to stick on the top of the plasma was a receiver not just a couple of ir leds. But, I'm up to speed now!
I think you are right to mention the possibilities. These are exciting times for technology.
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Quoting a previous RC Guff contribution:-
I just don't get the Twitter thing.
Ah, but whilst you don't get it, tens of thousands of others do. Not everything is for everyone. I mean, I as an example, just don't 'get' gaming generally. Yet, tens of thousands of others do.
If you look at the heavy users I think they all fall into a certain type of lifestyle or job, and so Twitter sits well with what they do. The majority of users are bloggers and writers, famous, or wannabe famous, or people trying to flog something! Twitter is a great market-place. People are using it for self-promotion, for the sharing of information, for debate and discussion, or any number of other things – dependent on which 'applications' they are running Twitter into.
My 5 year old son could design a better
interface than what seems to be a poor, cheap, crap html representation
of what seems a half-hearted effort produced by ex- ZX Spectrum graphic
designers.
I think you are missing another point here. The graphics are what's around 'now', and I guess appeal to that sort of consumer, the ones who are using it. White and sparse is the new black and busy. There are loads of Web 2.0 developments that have similar looks, so I'm guessing it's the trend.
Image nowadays is the way forward, especially in business and I steer
well clear of gimmicks such as Twitter and can't take anyone seriously
using it.
So, what is so wrong with, for example, me using Twitter to aggregate BBC news to me via free text messages? Or indeed, radio industry news from Radiotoday.co.uk, or the latest despatches from the Prime Minister's office? And the great thing about the Prime Minister's office twittering is that it's 2 way. I can, for example, tweet back asking a question, which gets replied to in a way that everybody can see, but, more importantly, instantly and without having to use the other laborious processes trying to grab Number 10's attention. It's conversation for the MTV generation.
And, whilst I admit the habit of writing presence statements does seem a bit odd (although everybody seems to do it on Facebook without problems), I can keep tabs on a number of different radio notables who are always saying what they are up to, without me having to ask them!
It's an extension of Geek perversion, a 'look at me' tool
that's akin to a Social Worker dressed in a tank top, cordroy jeans and
a pair of hush puppies.
It may have started out like that, but I think it's responded to a demand now, especially when you see the number of applications written for it. At the end of the day if you just look at Twitter in its rawest form it's just a bit of fun not too far different from CB radio. And not everybody 'gets' CB radio.
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* Christopher England just said that *
Quoting a previous RC Guff contribution:-
"Twitter is a free service that lets
you keep in touch with people using the web, your phone, or IM"
Errrrr????? WOW! That's unique! Whats the point, if I want to keep in
touch with people I USE my Mobile Phone, Web or IM insterad of Twitter!
Ah, but you are forgetting the fact that you tend to use those on a one to one basis. The Twitter thing in its rawest form is you talking to hundreds of your friends in one go. It's the same as the status message on Facebook, except portable. So, everybody 'following' you knows you are heading to Japan for a conference, or popping down the pub, whatever. Yet, in its broadest form it's a networking type of conversation between you and dozens of like-minded folk. That networking isn't necessarily social, and can be a way of getting noticed within a community (for example software development) and maybe getting your coding work bought up for $Millions by Google!
I'm more a Jaiku anorak than a Twitter one, personally, being as Jaiku is self-contained and doesn't need applications like http://summize.com http://twitterfeed.com or http://twittermail.com and so on. Jaiku also has conversation channels, but again, with contributions coming from a number of sources. It is very much a CB for nerds. So be it. Nerds are human too.
That said, I don't like twitter and am starting to question those who
orgasm over it.
But if it's not for you, why do you have to judge others it is apparently for?
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* Christopher England just said that *
Quoting a previous Alan Milewczyk contribution:-
the problem arises when
you have computer users who are not computer-savvy. They often fall into
a number of camps, two of which are those too frightened to do anything
and those who just don't understand the dangers – both are probably as
bad as each other.
But isn't this the same as people who don't know how to deal with cold calling salesmen on their phones or Jehovah's Witnesses knocking at their door? Somehow, generally, people are educated to not fall for these types of things, so equally part of growing up should probably be learning about the con artists operating on the net.
There has to be a time when it's the computer-user's own fault that he/she's been conned, surely?
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