Loudmouthman

• Roundup: Social Media Monitoring Tools
  Published: March 12, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  I am constantly skeptical of external monitoring tools when the value should be based on an internal expectation of results.
  There are countless ways to track your brand on social media. Simple methods include using Twitter search and Google Alerts; more elaborate tools include Radian6’s newly announced Engagement Console, which will scour numerous social platforms for any mention of your brand. So here’s a roundup of some of the more popular tracking tools. Monitoring Dashboards Twazzup 2.0 beta (which Dawn wrote about last year) is a dashboard that gathers all the mentions of your brand on Twitter and presents them in a...
• London Olympics: police powers to force spectators to remove non-sponsor items, enter houses, take posters
  Published: March 12, 2010
  Source: Boing Boing
  Remind me again the meaning of Police. Because We seem to have a Commercially Sponsored Heavy Mob not a Crown empowered keeper of the peace.
  The Olympics are coming to London, so our civil liberties are going out the window: because nothing epitomises the spirit of global competition and cooperation like corporate bullying and unfettered truncheon-waving. Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events. "I think there will be lots of people doing things completely innocently who are going to be caught by this, and some people will be prosecuted,...
• When IT Security Advice Goes Overboard
  Published: March 9, 2010
  Source: BusinessWeek -- Most Popular Stories
  IT departments are constantly being asked to "monitor" and "manage" staff productivity to such an extent that I wonder what roles departmental managers and team leaders have if the they constantly ask the IT department to supplement their Leadership and team management skills. In my mind it is a failure of managerial and team leader skills to create productive and effective teams if they resort to desktop control practices.The IT Department should not be responsible for the lack of skills in other employees or managers if should be focussed on ensuring availability of technical infrastructure and it can do this and still enable freedom of its users.The role of IT Security should be in controlling and monitoring external access coming into the network not internal access going out, to be fulfilling such a role is to be nothing more than a Digital Prison Guard and the employees are the inmates.I have been managing over 200 desktops in the last 10 years and have not had to implement such restrictions and still delivered uptime and network access.
• US Gov't. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance
  Published: March 1, 2010
  Source: Slashdot
  Slowly and without knowing it the apathy, indifference and ignorance of the public understanding of the Intneret means govts can through this and other bills ( Digital Economy Bill for instance ) remove our Internet and our creative opportunities. Placing the internet into the hands of the media and making it just another broadcast tool for use by the big business and restricted for use by anyone else.
  Taco Cowboy writes in with a report from The Register about a US policy shift away from keeping hands off the Internet. "According to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, Obama's top official at the Department of Commerce, the US government's policy of leaving the Internet alone is over. Instead, an 'Internet Policy 3.0' approach will see policy discussions between government agencies, foreign governments, and key Internet constituencies, with those discussions covering issues such as privacy, child prote...
• Points For Toothbrushing: The Gaming Speech Everyone Is Talking About
  Published: February 28, 2010
  Source: Hacker News
  Okay but when i went on about this two years ago everyone thought I was being Dumb. How come its okay now ?
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