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March 2012

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RECENT NEWS AND UPDATES & GENERAL INTERNET NEWS

Security notice:
Computers infected with the "Change DNS" virus

The FBI recently seized 87 hacker servers, and hundreds of thousands of victim computers will experience no access to the internet unless the virus is removed. The deadline to remove the virus is July 9, after which the Federal Government will shut off the substitute servers which they set into place of the seized hacker servers. (They did this so that the 100,000s of users who are infected will have time to clean their machines. )

About the virus: it forces the victim computer to access web sites through the hacker servers, this is done transparently so that the victim is unaware of the compromised security on their CPU.

When the hacker server substitutes are closed down by the Federal Government on July 9, no internet access will be possible for victim computers. Hence the immediate need to remove the hacker virus if indeed your computer is infected.

Read more about this dilemma online here: http://www.dns-ok.us/

Online test to find out if your computer is infected here: http://www.dcwg.org/detect/

MAY 2012

Time Magazine Online

The 25 Most Popular (and Worst) Passwords of 2011

December 7, 2011

Below is a list of just the first ten. "Password" is the the leading term and I must admit it holds a certain simplicity that can't be beat. Looking over the entire list of 25, though, at this list, there seems to be no particular challenge for hackers. Here's the top ten:

  1. password
  2. 123456
  3. 12345678
  4. qwerty
  5. abc123
  6. monkey
  7. 1234567
  8. letmein
  9. trustno1
  10. dragon

A point that needs to be made here is that a password that will stand up to hacking for even a brief amount of time is going to have to be a non-word that contains either numbers or special characters (or better still, both.)

For tips on making a safer password, here's help from Microsoft, Google, Symantec, Yahoo, and The United States Government Cyber Security Team.

Read the entire 25 most popular passwords article at time.com

Another 'Digital Revolution'

eReadership doubles in six months

August 15, 2011

A brief article on the phenomenal growth in 'eReadership,' that is, the number of users who have tablets and other devices for consuming written materials through digital (versus paper) means:

"The share of adults in the United States who own an e-book reader doubled to 12% in May 2011 from 6% in November 2010. E-readers, such as a Kindle or Nook, are portable devices designed to allow readers to download and read books and periodicals. This is the first time since the Pew Internet Project began measuring e-reader use in April 2009 that ownership of this device has reached double digits among U.S. adults."

Full article at the Pewresearch website.

One encouraging aspect of this not lost on publishing companies: readership has gained (as have profits) for the first time since a year-to-year erosion has been mapped for decades in the world of publishing. So, either there is a recapturing of lost readers occurring, or new readership is being cultivated through these technologicval devices (or, of course, a mix of the two).

Online but not found?

Why your online marketing doesn't work

August 3, 2011

A good (and brief) article by Jane Friedman about online marketing, separating the wheat and chaffe at her web site here.

Online but not found?

Becoming Visible on the Internet

July 21, 2011

There are 180 million web sites (and counting) in the United States area of the World Wide Web (255 estimated for the world). Of that, 152 million are blogs. For a web site owner trying to reach a larger audience (or any audience at all), the challenge of standing out against that avalanche of competition is the big question. Just putting a site online doesn't mean anyone will see it, in fact the odds are no one will. Without a connection from some starting point, a site is essentially invisable, and will stay that way. How to change that?

Tips:

  1. Link with other people who have some commonality with your site. If you are a regional business, link with other local businesses. If you're offering a product, link with other sites that are not in direct competition but serve the same customer base.

  2. Use Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin to converse with people just like you would in any business/social environment. Just because the person you are talking with isn't a potential customer doesn't mean they're not connected with other people who could be.

  3. Content on your site matters: freshen it up, add to it, think about what a reader wants to see and find on your site.

  4. Give something away for free.

There are many, many internet sources for free help on improving your web site. These tips are just a bare minimum of ideas: there are hundreds of 'free' ideas on the internet, just a search engine away.

Site Update:

March 2012
New web sites online on the eeweems server:

Saunders Paving of Chesterfield Virginia

Saunders Paving

Alphafloatation Dock Services in Rogers Arkansas

AlphaFloatation Beaver Lake

Chantilly High School (of Chantilly Virginia) class of 1982 is having their 30 year reunion. Special web site with reunion info

Chantilly High School Reunion

Beaver Lake Dock Services. Sering the Rogers and Northwest Arkansas area lake community.

Beaver Lake DOck Services

Site Update:

January 18, 2012
Updated Web Site: A new design is on display at breathmatters.com

Breath Matters Virginia

Site Update:

January 18, 2011
New Web Site: Info about Egyptian Singer Nehmes Bastet at nehmesbastet.com

Nehmes Bastet

Site Update:

August 15, 2011
Updated Web Site: A new design is being installed into the Francisco de Goya web site, one of the oldest sites we have (began in 1996).

Goya Redesign

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