Thoughts
Blogging Ethics – Anonymity Freedom of Speech vs. the Dark Side
More on ethics, this time a lecture I gave about the dark side of blogging and the issue of how far bloggers freedom of speech and right of anonymity stretches. Presentation include 3 case studies from 3 different countries : China, Israel and the US, and compares Continue Reading →
Social Media Optimization and Blogging Ethics
Today, I gave a presentation on the topic of Social Media Optimization ethics, covering some of the new ethical issues that Social Media professionals are facing. I can say from my personal perspective that these issues are something I'm still struggling with, Continue Reading →
Bloggers, Blogs and Blogging : Ethics, Categorization, and Code of Conduct discussed
Yesterday, I gave a short talk regarding the issue of blogs, bloggers and blogging ethics - should there be a code of ethics, should bloggers regard ethical issues and if so - which ethical considerations should a blogger be concerned about. Having been involved Continue Reading →
Problogging in Israel : The Globe case study for a successful Hebrew blog
It's been a while since then, but it's well worth the mention. Microsoft Israel hosted Yuval Dror of the Globe to talk about how his blog turned into Israeli's most popular (self-hosted?) Hebrew blog. With 1100+ RSS readers and thousands of daily pageviews, Continue Reading →
Israeli Blogosphere Awards: My favorite Israeli blogs
Blogerim.net is hosting the "Best (self-hosted) Israeli blog awards". I've been quietly following the Israeli self-hosted blogosphere for the past few months and have come to appreciate the growing number of quality bloggers in the small Israeli Continue Reading →
Israeli Problogging and the Israeli blogosphere – Dakar as a beginning
There are no probloggers in Israel. Not yet, anyway, and so the question of the Israeli blogosphere remains whether an Israeli problogger is even possible with a small market of about 3-4m Internet users, most of whom think blogs are for kids and that they Continue Reading →
Security experts’ common sins
In reference to Omer Taran's 10 most common security experts' sins, here's my humble addition to that list. I'm doing a very bad generalization rule of some security experts that I've met throughout my IT years, and referring to security experts as "them", Continue Reading →
Techies – Problem solving and searching discussed
“You’ve been preaching for us to do all sorts of nasty to our computers, like telling us to disable the Automatic Updates service for our machine to run faster with your “tweaking post” and then write us about using Firefox that doesn’t Continue Reading →
An old Windows XP machine optimization tweaks
It makes sense that not everybody has the money to refresh their specs every year or so. Seeing some of my friend's machines I'm usually overwhelmed by how bad things are and how much time they waste because of a lack in knowledge as to how they could make things Continue Reading →