Kraken: a giant squid or a wet squib? »
Yesterday I read a couple of news articles about the Kraken botnet - supposedly twice the size as that for Storm (aka Dorf) [1,2]. Interesting, and potentially worrying, especially when I read the references to low rates of AV detection and clever obfuscation techniques. Reading again, I noticed the source of the information, researchers at [...]

Folks Not Get What You Do? Look at Your Brand »
How many of these situations sound familiar to you? •    People call your nonprofit all the time asking for assistance on issues you don’t really work on, because they are confusing your organization with another one in town. •    You don’t have an “elevator speech” because it’s just too hard to explain what it is you do [...]

Programming for Mainframes Makes a Comeback »
Fueled by retirements, demand from big companies for programmers increases.

Research Libraries Embrace Publishing »
Research libraries show growing interest in publishing scholars’ work.

17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners »
Twitter is a micro blogging platform which allows you to publish short messages of less than 140 characters through different mediums like IM, cellphones and the web. It has a social element as well, as it allows users to befriend and monitor each other’s messages or updates. So what you have here is a publishing tool that can be either public and private.

Fair Pay »
An IT Director in New York City, working for a large nonprofit (650 people, multiple locations, full IT platform), got approval from his boss to hire in a Systems Administrator (punchline here) at $40,000 annually.  Understand, System Administrators rarely make less than $75k a year at similarly sized for profits. 

Openness for Technology and for Techies! »
Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend NTEN’s NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). It was a fantastic gathering of folks from every sector of the nonprofit world who had come together to share ideas, learn, and collaborate about new technologies that can help us do our jobs more effectively and efficiently

MacBook Air verdict: Seminal computer, five reasons »
The Apple MacBook Air is a seminal computer. There I said it. I’m not going to pretend that my opinion is the final word (or anything close to it) but I will weigh in by saying it’s a ground-breaking product. After using it for about two months, here’s why.

802.11n upgrade to Airport Express makes WDS a whole lot simpler - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW »
If I had to pick one feature of the Airport base station that makes me absolutely tear my hair out every time, that feature would be WDS. Getting a wireless network extended across multiple base stations with no wired interconnect is dark magic, and it seems like it never works the same way twice; it’s always a mystery blend of MAC address input, switching between encryption modes, hard restarts, matching security settings and swearing.

Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point) »
Within 20 minutes of my first Twitter message I got a call from a Comcast executive in Philadelphia who wanted to know how he could help. He said he monitors Twitter and blogs to get an understanding of what people are saying about Comcast, and so he saw the discussion break out around my messages.

The Highly Extensible CSS Interface »
Series on extensible CSS markup. Throughout the duration of this series, we’ll be speaking extensively about markup — XHTML, CSS, and a little scripting. Marking up a website is akin to speaking Spanish. There’s more than one way say something, and there’s certainly more than one way to code something.

How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients »
Last November we put up a guide to the most popular Twitter clients. For that post we looked at a random sample of 717 tweets from a handful of heavy Twitter users and identified 19 different ways people interacted with the service.

iPhone scores 79% in customer satisfaction survey; RIM trails at 54% « »
Three pictures from the latest ChangeWave smartphone survey offer good news for Apple, mixed news for Research in Motion and terrible news for Palm. All three are from a survey of 3,597 high-end consumers conducted between March 17 and March 24.