January 19, 2012 3:42 p.m.
Lots of chatter and coverage of the US House bill Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and its sister Senate bill Protect Intellectual Privacy Act (PIPA) as these bills move through the sausagemaking that is our legislative process.
People feel strongly about these bills and are jumping on any bully pulpit to instill fear in the hearts of the non-supporters (or supporters, depending on the pulpit). As with most impassioned controversy, most of the coverage is limited to the polar extremes. Each side focusing on the most liberal interpretations of the most fringe aspects and exploding that into an argument against ...
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Updated 01/19/12 @ 03:42PM CST by brian
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January 17, 2012 1:03 p.m.
Imaginary Landscape was highlighted in a recent blog post as one of only two Corporate Members of the Django Software Foundation. The post appears on the Django Project website and was written by DSF President Russell Keith-Magee.
"Membership of the DSF is one tangible way that your company can publicly demonstrate its support for the Django project, and give back to the Open Source community that has developed Django," wrote Keith-Magee.
Django is the main tool used by Imaginary Landscape to create interactive and modular websites for its clients.
"We are happy to support the Django Software Foundation and its ...
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Updated 01/17/12 @ 01:03PM CST by brian
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September 21, 2011 10:22 a.m.
Today the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, in collaboration with the non-profit Center for Democracy & Technology, released the report:
Account Deactivation and Content Removal: Guiding Principles and Practices for Companies and Users
The report provides a framework for managing violations to a website's terms of use and how best to handle the process, up to and including account deactivation.
From the press release:
This report explores these dilemmas and recommends principles, strategies, and tools that companies and users alike can adopt to mitigate the negative effects of account deactivation and content removal. Through case examples, we ...
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Updated 09/21/11 @ 10:22AM CDT by brian
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has just released its Media Cloud Dashboard for public use.
The Media Cloud, located at http://www.mediacloud.org is a media aggregation and analysis tool that provides visual snapshot of what words and topics are being written about on the Internet. It allows users to select specific datasets, such as "top 25 mainstream media" or "political blogs - right" as well as specific timeframes to see what words were most often mentioned. Clicking on the word shows each sentence it appeared in within all the individual publications in the dataset.
Even ...
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Updated 05/06/11 @ 01:20PM CDT by brian
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March 08, 2011 10:45 a.m.
Mobile computing is the new frontier of the online world, and Web developers are creating mobile-enabled Web applications that explore this frontier in new and exciting ways. 2010 showed that 3 percent of all Internet browsing activity occurred on mobile browsers, up from 1 percent at the end of 2009. As people put more faith in mobile devices, the impact of security breaches can be all the more devastating. From the perspective of a mobile Web application developer, mobile devices can be an additional entry point into an application. Creating mobile-friendly Web applications with security as a top priority is ...
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Updated 03/08/11 @ 10:45AM CST by jjasinski
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February 11, 2011 12:20 p.m.
According to a new study released in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, 93% of passwords used to safeguard protected health information were cracked utilizing commercially available password cracking software.
The study was conducted by researchers at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario.
The test was conducted using files provided by volunteer stakeholders in 15 clinical trials. And, although the samples were not representative of all clinical trials in Canada, they were "likely examples of trials where the stakeholders were sufficiently comfortable with their security practices."
"In all cases the ...
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Updated 02/11/11 @ 12:20PM CST by brian
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January 24, 2011 10:56 a.m.
With the proliferation of social media sites, multiple email accounts, logins at various financial institution websites, multiple computers and smart phones, the amount of personal information stored in the “cloud” continues to grow.
So, what happens when you die? How can you protect your digital footprint and make it easy for someone to manage, transfer, download and/or close these various accounts?
These questions are what John Romano and Evan Carroll attempt to answer with their website The Digital Beyond and their newly released book Your Digital Afterlife. They were recently interviewed on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and ...
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Updated 01/24/11 @ 10:56AM CST by brian
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I am a great fan of the Associated Press Stylebook. I have had a copy on my desk for the past 20 years.
I try to enforce their guidelines throughout all that I write and review. I have been known to scrawl nasty comments next to improper usage when reviewing documents. I have summarily dismissed candidates from consideration when I observe errors on their resumes and cover letters. In short, I am a stickler for proper and consistent use of the English language.
I spent a lot of time correcting "website." "Web site," I would scrawl with my preferred quill ...
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Updated 07/09/10 @ 05:30PM CDT by brian
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September 11, 2009 10:44 a.m.
As a company,
Imaginary Landscape has had great success aligning ourselves with industry verticals such as
hospitals and associations and financial institutions. Although we have been deeply involved with the technology side, most clients - quite frankly - couldn't care less about the technology. They want their Web site to do certain things and look a certain way. Whether that means a SQL or Access database didn't matter. Open source or Microsoft...whatever, just make sure the site does what it's supposed to do. For most clients, the purchase decision for Web comes from marketing and their focus is ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:44AM CDT by brian
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September 11, 2009 10:42 a.m.
Last year I was reading through a variety of industry writings and came upon the widely-held assertion that "less is more" when it comes to Web-based forms. Specifically, how requiring users to fill out many form fields results in less submissions.
However, I was unable to find any data to support this. It seemed like a fairly easy thing to test, so I decided to test it on our website.
At the time, the Imaginary Landscape contact form was 11-fields long. It was filled with fields that I did not need but instead just wanted. Fields like Fax Number and ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:42AM CDT by brian
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