Archive for March, 2008
Summer’s coming, blog on the go and go enjoy some fresh air
You can easily blog to your Blogger account on the go, WordPress needed some work to be usable from my iPhone and Windows Mobile Phone.
You can painlessly blog to Blogger by email.
I set up email notification of all comments and new members to an email I use for nothing but that. This gives me a heads up that there is activity and I’ve found I can approve comments and post comments from my internet enabled smart phones to Blogger or WordPress.
Starbucks will be doling out 2 hours free wifi daily this spring to those with registered Starbucks card. Register yours now and beat the rush. But who wants to hang out in Starbucks all day?
I purchased a data card for my laptop. All the major wireless phone companies have them. The price is about $30-$250, a $30 card works just fine. All you care about is the speed of the network the card is using. Be sure to ask about that when you buy your card. You can get pcmcia or usb cards. The monthly charge is about $70/month.
And just recently I stumbled across iPhone/WM Plugin for WP Blogs. This lets you do all the usual admin chores from your iPhone or WM phone. Install and activate the plugin on your WordPress blogs and your good to go.
Chilling Effect Clearing House
Many of the topics on the forums I read are questions concerning take down notices, scraping, and copyright. If you want good, reliable information on these topics be sure to visit the ‘Chilling Effects Clearing House’.
Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you.
Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate their favorite movie stars, or criticize businesses. But we’ve noticed that not everyone feels the same way. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals and corporations are using intellectual property and other laws to silence other online users. Chilling Effects encourages respect for intellectual property law, while frowning on its misuse to “chill” legitimate activity. [ read more Chilling effects clearing house ]
Another excellent source of both news and information on copyright is the EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Don’t rely on information on forums, go to reputable sources, your rights and your responsibilities as a webmaster are too important to not have accurate and current information.
