This week’s Loose Wire column is about TheBrain organizing and brainstorming software: Expand Your Mind: There’s software to help you do it. TheBrain not only aids in organizing your thoughts but could also stimulate new ideas and connections When you chat with someone who says, “My brain right this minute is 105 megabytes and there… Read More »
This week’s Loose Wire column is about Squarespace: WHY, AFTER ALL THIS TIME, is it still so hard for us ordinary Joes to publish something on the Internet without having a doctorate in HTML, or having to settle for a Web site that looks like the home page of a four-year-old with a Hello Kitty… Read More »
How do you correct the Internet? All these reports of plagiarism and fakery in U.S. journalism — at least 10, according to the New York Times — raise a question I haven’t seen addressed elsewhere. What should newspapers and other publications which have carried the reports do about setting the record straight? A USA Today… Read More »
This week’s Loose Wire column is about the future of email: E-MAIL IS GOOD. Very good: Of all the things that started out with the Internet it’s about the only survivor (ever heard of Gopher? Archie? Telnet?). E-mail works because it’s simple. You send e-mail, you receive it: Two standards, or protocols. People communicating with… Read More »
This week’s Loose Wire column is about phishing trojans: A FEW WEEKS AGO I talked about the dangers of “phishing” e-mails (Look Out! It’s a Scam, Feb. 5) that fool you into thinking that they are from your bank or from a transaction-oriented Web site like eBay or PayPal, then lure you to a Web… Read More »