Category: Information Technology

I’m seeing a flurry of emails from friend’s accounts with this subject line and the text below:

I just created a secured shared document using Google Doc. To access this doc please Click here and for security reasons, you have to log on with your email to view it, its very important“

As I’ve received at least three with exact same message, I’m confident they’re exploits from hacked accounts. They’re coming from good friends, but also have dozens of emails in the “to:” line. 

Anyway, I advise everyone to avoid clicking on such. 

I’ve been exploring WordPress over the last few months (see my blog NotJustSeattle.com). I really, really like the platform and have found so many benefits over Blogger. Plus, watching the demise of Google Reader a few months back makes me wonder about the long-term status of this. With Google+ garnering the lion’s share of Google attention and public focus, I wonder how long they’ll continue to support the platform. Blogger seems like a neglected stepchild.

With all this, I commenced planning out my migration. It’s not appearing as clean as I’d hoped, but the research is pretty early on. It seems my URL might be the biggest challenge. Plus, I need to decide if I will just move this to a site hosted by WordPress.com, or pony up for something hosted by BlueHost or GoDaddy (or….).

So, taking a thoughtful and well planned approach on this. It’ll be interesting to see where it leads.

Any ideas, hints or tips? Just leave me a comment. I’d be quite happy for advice.

I want to dive a bit deeper into ThinkUp, but like what I’ve seen so far. Give Mr. Dash a few minutes of your time. Then let me know what you think. I’ll be here…

Just read “Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald for a new venture in news” over at Jay Rosen’s PressThink. So much of this makes me near giddy. The potential: amazing! Combining key stakeholders within both the online business sector (Pierre Omidyar founded eBay, for you who don’t know. And I’d like to think any reader here would know Glenn’s work. If not, here’s his Wikipedia article. These are the higher profile collaborators. Read the article for a more in-depth list).

Not many details released yet, I expect that these are getting hashed out as we speak. their motivations, though, and the backgrounds of the collaborators are what give me the most excitement. This combination of talent presents an amazing opportunity to deeply innovate this space. Both from a financial side (let’s face it, modern news has struggled with finding a sustainable financial model) as well as deeply utilizing elements of the modern web culture, and, lastly, bringing a renewed focus on the core of journalism’s power: investigation. Watching the watchers, pushing deep and holding our society’s leadership accountable (note: not just government) is critical, but a weakened force right now.

Anyway, these are the thoughts that roll off my keyboard this morning. I look forward to learning more as this gels.

I’ve come up against a unique problem. One of the other admins for a business page I manage is unable to invite her friends to “like” it. When she clicks on “invite friends”, her whole list is grayed out. One of the challenges I’m facing with diagnosing the problem is that we’re ~30 miles apart, so I’m relying on voice to communicate the visual issues. I’ve found a few others with this issue, but no conclusive answer.

My basic research shows that the main culprit for these issues is that they’ve already been invited (like this page mentions).  However, in this instance, there are people who haven’t been invited that are appearing grayed out. These appear to be unrelated issues.

A few additional details: 1) my view is fine. I can invite everyone in my network except those who have been invited. In other words, the way it’s supposed to look. 2) We have verified that she is logged in as herself, not as the business page.

I’m leaning towards a few possible answers. Perhaps she inadvertently invited everyone at one point. Hard to imagine, but I guess it’s possible. Another is that all her friends have a privacy setting enabled that blocks these invites. Again, statistically unlikely, but, hey, I’m grasping here.

Have any of you seen this? What solution did you find?

I’m a bit sad that I was unable to cram this year’s GeekWire Summit into my overdone calendar. That is in no way meant to devalue the event. Using Franklin-Covey parlance, I couldn’t move some Quadrant I items to fit this Quadrant II.

Seattle has a great tech community, and many ways for connection within. The next one that I’m aware of is the September Seattle Tech Meetup on September 17. This is one that I should be able to make.

And then there’s the Seattle Interactive Conference. This is a grand one, and one that my current budget just can’t absorb. However, I hear great things and would recommend attending based on them.

I’m sure I’m missing good ones. Let me know if you have suggestions that I should add. Heck, maybe I’ll start a more definitive list.