How to Block Cellphone Spam - Pogue’s Posts
How to Block Cellphone Spam - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog
This is a good article by David Pogue on how to prevent text messaging spam. I have been lucky and not received any, but my parents haven’t had that luck.
They were getting so much spam, they just turned off text messaging.
I have tried to convince them to turn it back on and do things like this to prevent the spam, but they don’t want anything to do with it.
I think it is important to have it turned on so, in case of an emergency, we can communicate by text. They live in earthquake territory. The phone lines can get maxed out quickly, but if they would be able to text, they could get some communications out.
I’ll be visiting them in a couple of months, maybe we could come up with something and I can get them to turn it back on.
Firefox 3.0 RC2 Available
For those of you who use Firefox and have made the move to 3.0, Mozilla has made Firefox 3.0 RC2 available for download.
I have been using Firefox 3.0 RC1 and for the most part it has been working for me. I have only had to restart a few times.
The only issue is that some of the sites that I use do not support Firefox 3.0. I don’t know why not because it is standards compliant.
I hope this release is better and more stable.
I am a TWIT too!
I like and listen to several of the podcasts that are on twit.tv by Leo Laporte. They are informative, entertaining, and are a great community. I feel that I know many of the people that are on the various podcasts that I listen to.
Well ringtonefeeder has developed a video and has posted it on YouTube and has captured most of what being a TWIT is. Take a look and enjoy.
Thanks to @JasonCalacanis on Twitter for sharing this.
Twitter hiccups through a semi-outage
Twitter hiccups through a semi-outage | Webware
Well I have been having problems with Twitter also. I am only getting updates from people who I have added recently. If I have been following someone for quite some time, no updates.
At least they are working on this, but it is quite frustrating. Every time that Twitter does some sort of update or change, it really messes up. You would think that they would test these things out before rolling them out to the production servers.
I would transition completely to Pownce, but the community is not there yet. If the community builds there, then I may move completely that way. Otherwise I am stuck with a service that is not quite there yet.
Let’s hope this comes back quick because I miss my Twitter updates.
Upgrade to WordPress 2.5 complete
Well I finally completed my upgrade to WordPress 2.5 and I am liking it quite a bit. I had planned on doing this while I was gone, but just did not have the time.
I am finding that I like this new version quite a bit and it is refreshing over the previous version. I had found that it had become quite tired.
I am looking forward to more updates and other interesting things from the folks who develop WordPress.
Helping our friends up north fight the throttling of the internet
Amber MacCarthur, one of our favorite web celebrities from up north, is taking on the telecommunications establishment in Canada for their packet shifting and throttling of the Internet.
Bell and Rodgers are restricting bandwidth whenever and wherever they want and it is finally making our Canadian friends upset.
Take a look at this video that Amber just released.
Let’s help bring net neutrality to Canada.
Interesting Post on Blogging Without Accountability
Bob Costas made some interesting statements about blogging today at a dinner for the Make-A-Wish sports auction in south Florida.
I saw this article on a blog that the Spokesman-Review runs on various sports out of Spokane, Wash. Here is what I said in a comment section:
I just don’t think Costa’s gets it. People have something to say, they are going to say it. They just have a bigger audience and they don’t need something filtered through the mainstream media that pays Costas salary.
I think that the media is changing and the people who have been doing it through the traditional means are having a hard time with it and are resistant to it. I am finding better coverage and better news on blogs and citizen journalist sites than I am finding through mainstream sites. They just don’t have the time anymore to do the job that needs to be done because the staffs have been cut so much.
I can see Cuban restricting access to bloggers, but limiting a person who blogs with a major news outlet that covers your team is ridiculous. The Miami Dolphins seem to be doing it right, I just can’t believe they have that many fan sites.
The other interesting thing of this blog was that Mark Cuban, himself a blogger, banned blogger’s only from being credentialed at the Dallas Maverick games. I see his point, but they have banned a blogger from a major newspaper in Dallas. I don’t think that was cool.
I would be interested to hear what your thoughts and comments are.
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