So the Harrisburg city council’s website was hacked. I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first time this has happened, and it won’t be the last. But what’s frustrating is that this can be solved at a cost of about $10 per year to city taxpayers, which is probably less than we’re paying for hosting right [...]
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April 7, 2009
Tax-Day Tweetup – UPDATE
WHERE: Appalachian Brewing Company, GROUND FLOOR WHEN: Wed, April 15 2009 @ 7pm (till ???) WHAT: Central PA Tweetup / blogger gathering LAST-SECOND UPDATE: Tonight’s Tweetup has been moved to the ground floor of ABC due to the concerts going on upstairs. We should be somewhere back in the area of the kitchen; if you [...]
February 28, 2009
Anonymity on the Internet: Part 2
While digging for followup material for my previous post regarding on the matter, I came across this article today in the Washington Post: The Maryland Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling and ordered that NewsZap.com, an online forum run by Independent Newspapers, does not have to disclose the identities of forum participants who [...]
September 3, 2008
Make Blogging 33% Better
Not really, but this would easily be the single best invention ever to hit the Internet since ethernet: YouTube Comment Snob Basically, YCS blocks comments that are too stupid to live. I’m not talking about comments that you may or may not disagree with; I’m talking about comments that should’ve been aborted long before they [...]
August 24, 2008
Last Thursday's Central PA Tweetup
GREAT times at this past week’s tweetup! Thanks to everyone — whether you tweeted about it, blogged about it, offered words of support, or just plain showed up — who made it happen. I noticed a LOT of new faces (yay) and a few missing regulars (boo), but it seems like everyone in attendance had a [...]
August 24, 2008
Central PA Tweetup: September 2008
When: Thursday, 09/18/08, 7pm until 9pm Where: The Abbey Bar (upstairs at ABC Harrisburg) What: A meetup of the blogHarrisburg contributors + Central PA Twitter users The third Thursday of every month, us bloggers and Twitter users (Twitterers? Tweeps? Twits?) get together on the second floor of Appalachian Brewing Company on Cameron Street to get [...]
February 24, 2009
Your Comments Aren't Anonymous
UPDATED 2/27/09; read the bottom of the post for more details. I just found this interesting post over on Topix Chambersburg: http://www.topix.net/forum/source/chambersburg-public-opinion/TCB69SLLD4383GT6N Quoting from the article: The company that owns and operates the York Daily Record/Sunday News readers’ comment posting Web site will release the identities of people who anonymously posted comments to a story [...]
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