Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
This is how Casie and I amuse ourselves.
It went like this:
Me – Look how I’m walking. This is funny
Casie – (snap snap of camera)
Me – Now look, I’m taking my photo while you take my photo, That’s So Meta!
Casie – (snap snap)
Us – cackle cackle AHHHHHH RUN! How’d we end up in the streetcar lane?!?
Yes, our nerdiness knows no bounds.
There’s a reason I’m doing this.
I’m trying to rank for “cycling animated gifs”, because very few exist.
I like to see if I can rank for things, for kicks.
There’s the Barking Fish Cafe (7th), Skynet Becomes Self Aware (28th), World Planking Day (12th), and Big Mac Virus (3rd).
These are my SEO Experiments.
I have some things to say about SEO these days, I’ve got a half drafted blog post here, coming soon.
PS – if you’d like to see some REALLY nice animated gifs, meet From Me To You, they’re gorgeous.
PPS – Hope this didn’t load too slow, I made them small, I’m thinking about your load time! I always do.
The aforementioned tweet.
Thoughts?
Below is a collection of articles written recently, mostly by fellow bloggers, about the state of the industry. These are the type of articles that started flooding the internet last week.
Send me any I missed, and I’ll link them up.
Casie Stewart – The Blog Days are Over Now, don’t get me wrong because there IS a difference
Mashable – How Social Media is Changing Paid, Earned and Owned Media
Zach Bussey – Bloggers and PR – The Spiral of Earned Media
Rebecca Levey – Someone’s Getting Paid, Why Aren’t You?
CC Chapman – Nice Guys Get Paid Too
Tuesday I attended the Canadian Telecom Summitt 2011 #CTS11… Canada’s leading and largest telecommunications industry event.
Media sits at the back.
There were big-name keynote speeches all day, heads of Telus, HP, Rogers, Microsoft, Bell and CRTC people.
This is how I learned we got a new Minister of Industry two weeks ago, Christian Paradis.
Congratulations on your new job! Please protect Canada.
Made some new friends both IRL and online during it, hi guys! Keep in touch.
You can’t just go around blasting signals haphazardly, where and whenever you wish. Depending on what you’re doing, depends on which frequency you transmit/broadcast/communicate on.
Below shows (some) of the MHz spectrum and its allocations. See the band where I added the text, flanked by ‘mobile’ and ‘broadcasting’?
That’s the 700 MHz band, and it’s soon up for sale.
(See the full diagram here)
It was once owned by the broadcasters, and was used to broadcast analog TV.
Now the government owns it, and is about to sell it.
The auction will take place late 2012. The gentleman above is in charge of said auction.
It’s a powerful spectrum which can penetrate walls. This makes it ideal for broadband communication. It also has a great range and can travel long distances; one tower broadcasting 700 MHz can cover 20 miles.
Tweets and fun facts from today.
Many of the talks re-inforced my theory about how the future internet will be designed, I talk about it in my video, About UBB – Usage Based Billing, fast-forward to 0:31.
Then I invited myself to the stage.
And gave an impassioned speech.
While everyone was at lunch.
Are you on a Mac computer? This is for you.
We Apple users have enjoyed relatively safe surfing for so long, so why now?
It’s been written that once Apple reached a 16% marketshare, only then would the financial payoff be worth the time to target Macs.
There are many different kinds of attacks (a post for another time)… this one is “scareware“… it shocks you into thinking there’s a virus on your computer, so you download the program to get rid of it, except the program is actually the virus.
The scam is running under 5 different names: MacDefender / MacGuard / MacKeeper / MacProtector / MacSecurity.
The popup windows look like this:
Don’t download it.
Pretty obvious huh. Pretty crazy that people actually fall for this.
Remember – if you didn’t go searching for it, do not accept any downloads.
Apple has put out an official statement on how to deal with MacDefender… click here.
They’ll be soon releasing a OS X update to search and destroy any MacDefender that may be on your hard drive.
You can be sure there’s way more where this came from, and much more sophisticated, too.
If you would like a Mac anti-virus program, go with Kapersky, they’re world-class.
In your browser preferences turn off “automatically open downloaded files”.
Watch my Change your Passwords video below and follow my instructions.
xo Keri
