In an online world filled with likes & retweets the lowly bookmark is in a state of severe neglect. The social world is developing a myriad of ways to share content and judge what’s popular while disregarding the value in organizing & discovering useful content. To illustrate my point: You know that really cool how-to [...]

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This isn’t about Facebook places, it’s about the goldmine of aggregating GeoSocial data. Facebook fires an impressive shot… can Google answer?

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@ChrisBrogan (ChrisBrogan.com) joined @MackCollier (MackCollier.com) for #BlogChat this evening to share tips for marketing and promoting your blog through social media and while it was focused toward blogging I think the tips universally apply to most any social media strategy. The tweetstream was a bit crazy but as always Chris shared some well reasoned and [...]

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Here’s what I found interesting from the past week. Hootsuite launched Premium Accounts – I think the plans are reasonable and I’m glad to see such a good service actually show interest in making money. We’ll see how the community responds and this will hopefully open doors for other competitors. (We have Hootsuite joining us [...]

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In a few days we are expecting the birth of our first child and we are blessed with the problem of having a lot of friends and family wanting up-to-the minute info. While it would be nice to call and text everyone individually it just isn’t practical. I needed a minor mass communication strategy. How [...]

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Today we’ve learned that Facebook is testing an notification unsubscribe option and honestly it’s about time. I’m weary of liking something only to get notifications of ever comment left on that post. This idea of subscribing to a topic has been around the web for years and yet Facebook is just discovering it. It is [...]

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Shoemaker Memorial Care Fund
Yesterday I mentioned the passing of Matthew Shoemaker. His friends have set up an account to help support his two children. Donations can be made to the Shoemaker Memorial Care Fund at The Peoples Bank, P.O. Box 788, Winder, GA 30680. Checks can either be mailed directly or transfers via telephone (770) 867-9111. Please place the account 00133835 on the check. Rick has set up a PayPal link, which you can find on the right hand side of this ISD page.

There are also plans to set up some charity classes.

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Stay active on Twitter long enough and you’ll find yourself at an online identity crisis. As your reputation grows in a particular community or subject matter you’ll suddenly discover that you are torn between perceived community expectations and just being yourself. This is your permission slip to just be yourself. Less is More… So I [...]

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Setting up the Teensy/Teensyduino Arduino Environment    
This video will show you the basics of setting up the Teensyduino environment in Windows so you can start developing PHUKD devices.

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I’ve been live blogging conferences for a few years and I can say it is extremely rewarding and frustrating. The appreciation generated by your effort of sharing information from a live event is fantastic because a good conference live blog is useful to everyone, from conference organizers and participants to interested people elsewhere in the [...]

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Mutillidae/Samurai WTF/OWASP Top 10
This is a presentation I did at the Kentuckiana ISSA and then again at the Ohio Security Forum on Mutillidae/Samurai WTF/OWASP Top 10. I chose to post the Ohio version of the video as I think it came out better, but the slides are the same. Plenty of information on XSS (Cross Site Scripting), CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) and SQL/Command Injection.

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Locking down Windows Vista and Windows 7 against Malicious USB devices
In this article I go into a lot of details about blocking malicious USB devices, like the PHUKD. I plan to present such material at the upcoming Louisville Infosec. Speaking of which:

The Louisville Metro InfoSec Conference
Thursday October 7th, 2010
at Churchill Downs!
http://www.louisvilleinfosec.com/
Registrations between now and July 16th, 2010 receive a
50% DISCOUNT on the $99 ticket price!

After July 16th the ticket price will go back to normal.

Current speakers include: Marcus J. Ranum, Dave Kennedy, Rafal Los, Jeremiah Grossman and myself.

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I don’t want your business card. Sorry but I’m not interested in a piece of paper that I have to keep track of until I can enter  your contact details into my address book. I live in a digital world and the highest compliment I can give you is jotting your info into my Evernote [...]

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As I previously reported the National Weather service has banned social media usage by its employees to share weather related information. After a post where I highlighted how useful Twitter and certain NWS related accounts were during a tornado outbreak we saw the twitter accounts go dark and blog posts deleted. A couple of weeks [...]

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What is the number one stumbling block to location based social network adoption? Privacy. To better judge how people use networks like Foursquare and Gowalla I did an informal survey. 63% of users only share their location with close friends, while 37% have a much more open approach. There are varying shades of gray in between the 2 [...]

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Are you looking for a great way to organize meetups & events through Twitter? Need a great tool for connecting with people after the event? Allow me to introduce Twtvite & Twtbizcard Organizing Tweetups with Twtapps from tsudohnimh on Vimeo.

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This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending my very first WordCamp. WordCamps are tech/blogging conferences focused around the Wordpress publishing platform. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to attend but I couldn’t resist an invitation from my friend Cotton so I was off to let my geek flag fly at Wordcamp Fayetteville. To [...]

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Its a brave new world where most everything in our lives is being tied to online social networks. These technologies are wonderful and weird so they require early adopters to give them a spin and hopefully refine them. I’m one of these early adopters. I am an oversharer. Why do I share so much? What apps [...]

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This weekend I have the pleasure to attend WordCamp Fayetteville. A wordcamp is a conference dedicated to the Wordpress publishing platform. There are some great speakers and talks today and I’ll try to live blog my notes from the conference. For more info: Visit WordcampFayetteville.com Watch the live stream at WordCampFayetteville.com/live-video/ Follow the speakers on [...]

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Yesterday I reported that the National Weather Service issued a memo prohibiting NWS employees from sharing weather information through personal social media accounts. This memo has been confirmed by several different sources and the reports on the ground tell a very different story than the NWS. The NWS Public Affairs office said the policy has long existed [...]

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[UNCONFIRMED] We are getting reports this morning that the National Weather Service has issued an internal memo that bans all NWS employees from using social media outlets to spread weather related information. I’m working on getting confirmation. Follow the conversation on twitter with the hashtag #NWSfail I’ll post any links or documentation as soon as I get it. If [...]

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A shortcut to create links to nowhere and telling your twitter community you don’t care by linking Facebook and Twitter. For mobile/rss readers here is the direct link to the audio. Applications mentioned in the post Tweetdeck HootSuite Selective Tweets Posterous

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WHAS 11 Webcam Exploit
This is a segment I did an interview for. They took very little of what I said, and played up the voyeur aspect (I told them webcams were not that big a worry, but drive by bot installs were).

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Despite my light hearted headline this is serious business. What role should social media play in your emergency communications plan? To be clear this isn’t about Crisis Communications from a PR perspective but rather real world emergencies like wild fires, severe weather, school shootings, or even unexpected closings. When the unthinkable and unexpected happens you’d better [...]

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Despite my light hearted headline this is serious business. What role should social media play in your emergency communications plan? To be clear this isn’t about Crisis Communications from a PR perspective but rather real world emergencies like wild fires, severe weather, school shootings, or even unexpected closings. When the unthinkable and unexpected happens you’d better [...]

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2 days ago I published an article, “Tornado Alley, Twitter style” where I related the amazing story of how a community kept people updated via the #ARwx hashtag during the severe weather events this weekend and also took some of the local traditional media outlets to task about how they weren’t contributing to the stream. I’ve [...]

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2 days ago I published an article, “Tornado Alley, Twitter style” where I related the amazing story of how a community kept people updated via the #ARwx hashtag during the severe weather events this weekend and also took some of the local traditional media outlets to task about how they weren’t contributing to the stream. I’ve [...]

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Apr 30, 2010 may well be known as the night that new media changed the game in the state of Arkansas. Tonight was one of the most amazing examples of the power of Twitter and in turn showed how excruciatingly far we have to go. Here’s how 4 little letters beat the entire mainstream media. There is a [...]

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Apr 30, 2010 may well be known as the night that new media changed the game in the state of Arkansas. Tonight was one of the most amazing examples of the power of Twitter and in turn showed how excruciatingly far we have to go. Here’s how 4 little letters beat the entire mainstream media. There is a [...]

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Yesterday I had the pleasure to attend the Social Web Summit, Roadshow edition and hear Simon Salt @incslinger do a seminar on location based social networks (LBSN). I must admit I’m a born skeptic and often find similar seminars, webcasts, and teleconferences to be little more than introductions to technology which I’m already familiar with. I [...]

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Yesterday I had the pleasure to attend the Social Web Summit, Roadshow edition and hear Simon Salt @incslinger do a seminar on location based social networks (LBSN). I must admit I’m a born skeptic and often find similar seminars, webcasts, and teleconferences to be little more than introductions to technology which I’m already familiar with. I [...]

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The competition for your business in the Location based social network arena is heating up. The two major contenders, Gowalla and Foursquare, are gearing up for a high stakes battle, and the winner will be you. Here’s my audio post on the current state and the future of the GeoSocial giants and what it means for [...]

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The competition for your business in the Location based social network arena is heating up. The two major contenders, Gowalla and Foursquare, are gearing up for a high stakes battle, and the winner will be you. Here’s my audio post on the current state and the future of the GeoSocial giants and what it means for [...]

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Every new social platform faces the same evolutionary hurdle, it must prove it’s value to users. It took Twitter the better part of 2 years to conquer the “Why do I care what you had for breakfast” perception and now location based social networks (GeoSocial) like Gowalla and Foursquare face similar refrains. What’s the point? / [...]

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Every new social platform faces the same evolutionary hurdle, it must prove it’s value to users. It took Twitter the better part of 2 years to conquer the “Why do I care what you had for breakfast” perception and now location based social networks (GeoSocial) like Gowalla and Foursquare face similar refrains. What’s the point? / It’s [...]

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Notacon Anti-Forensics Slides Posted
I put up the slides from my Notacon talk on the same page as the longer version of the Anti-forensics/Occult Computing talk. Hope to have the video up later.

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or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love not hate the bomb” It’s no secret that I’ve been a Facebook critic for quite sometime, and rightfully so, but some recent changes in my approach has opened my eyes to the real possibility behind Facebook. I’ve long used Facebook as a friends and family platform and it [...]

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or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love not hate the bomb” It’s no secret that I’ve been a Facebook critic for quite sometime, and rightfully so, but some recent changes in my approach has opened my eyes to the real possibility behind Facebook. I’ve long used Facebook as a friends and family platform and it [...]

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[This was originally posted at lr4sqday.com but I liked it enough that I wanted to share it here.] With all the noise we’ve been making about Foursquare Day (Fri Apr 16) your organization might be considering this strange new world of location based social networking for the first time. Sure it’s nifty, new and fun… but fun [...]

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[This was originally posted at lr4sqday.com but I liked it enough that I wanted to share it here.] With all the noise we’ve been making about Foursquare Day (Fri Apr 16) your organization might be considering this strange new world of location based social networking for the first time. Sure it’s nifty, new and fun… but fun [...]

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