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Sign Up at irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You — Krebs on Security
If you’re an American and haven’t yet created an account at irs.gov, you may want to take care of that before tax fraudsters create an account in your name and steal your personal and tax data in the process.
Useful tip to prevent others from filing and receiving your refund, and a cautionary tale about how easy it is to claim someone's identity.
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Over the years, I've used many different tools and services to post information to the web. A non-exhaustive list would include: Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress.com, Movable Type, Google+, Buzz, FriendFeed, etc. While I've yet to find myself spouting profundities, I do often refer back to what I've shared for my own purposes. Frequently, a situation arises where I'd like to recall something I know I've shared in the past. The problem is where does it live, and is it still there (see Buzz, et. al.)
I've started to use Known as a tool to post my own thoughts and to share them with anyone who may be interested. I don't expect that to be a large group, but I do it for my own purposes and to help me make sense of what I read, hear, see, and experience.
I'm hosting Known on a webserver that I have full control of, so I don't have to worry what might happen if Known stops development, changes their terms of service, or gets swallowed up by another company (see FriendFeed, et. al.) I would miss the further development of Known, but I could continue with what I have and make changes myself (I'm not a PHP developer, but was able to make a couple of small contributions to the project already, through GitHub.)
Using this known-powered site, I can post lengthy posts (assuredly, these will be rare), post to Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites, interact with other capable sites, eschew advertising, change the style, delete, edit, etc. What I post is mine, and I can do with it as I please.
Running your own server (I pay for hosting, so I don't run the hardware) and installing and administering Known is not for everyone, but it could be. Services are better these days about letting you export the data you created, but knowing that you own it and control it is a nice feeling to have.
I admire the principles that drive people like the folks behind Known or Dave Winer and others in the indieweb community. In a way, it's a return to the early days of the web where people owned and managed their own sites. Today the tools are in place to allow us to do just that, while still allowing us to share with others on our social networks.
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I've started using Known as of March 14, 2015. Older posts originally appeared elsewhere - unfortunately, comments were not migrated.
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Kevin Gamble on Twitter: "Is "network literacy" knowledge or a skill? #netlit #coopext"
Kevin asks if network literacy is a skill or knowledge - I say both, and I'm not sure you can separate one from the other. If we take that abilities are aptitudes we're born with and skills are learned, then you likely can't have one without the other. Kevin also asked which comes first - which I see as a bit of a "chicken or egg" problem. Should we care? Some people may gain knowledge, without acquiring a particular skill, but it may facilitate gaining the skill when the need arises. As we acquire skills, we gain knowledge from the practice and experience applying them. So, I don't care which comes first, as they almost certainly arise together and in succession in weird and wonderful ways.
Originally posted to linkblog February 8, 2015
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How Google Search Dealt With Mobile — Medium
Great, long article by Steven Levy discussing how Google search has evolved over the years to incorporate voice, knowledge graph, Google Now, and more. Also made me look up the word, synecdoche, which I had heard before but wasn't familiar with - a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in - Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).
Originally posted to linkblog January 16, 2015
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Taken together, these results provide strong empirical support for the emergence of collective intelligence in online groups, and the conclusion that theory of mind abilities are a significant determinant of group collective intelligence even when, as in many online groups, the group has extremely limited communication channels.
Interesting that the same results are seen in online groups communicating only via text.
Originally posted to linkblog December 31, 2014
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"discovery begins with a Technology Trigger, climbs quickly to a Peak of Inflated Expectations, falls into the Trough of Disillusionment, and, as practical uses are found, gradually ascends to the Plateau of Productivity."
Originally posted to linkblog December 19, 2014
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"These two observations allow us to conclude that networking for networked learning is not only a skill to be developed, but also an attitude towards learning to be cultivated. The interviews confirmed that networking revolves around a complex ability of (i) recognizing and identifying the other’s qualities; and, of (ii) making (valuable) associations of these qualities with the learner’s own qualities that could take place when interacting with a contact or even in the contact’s absence. Learners have different levels of proficiency in this skill, but can also differ in the actual application of the skill, due to the attitude with which they approach learning."
Originally posted to linkblog November 13, 2014
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A Convicted Felon Speaks Out about White Collar Crime
Came across this while searching for something related to an accounting class I'm taking. It's as crazy as Crazy Eddie!
Originally posted to linkblog October 5, 2014
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