…The global economy is now reshaping itself in response to these pressures, and like all such transitions is causing earthquakes all up and down the many existing faults within the previous system. Overall, IT workers are in general perhaps better prepared for the upheavals in that emerging world than most - a world where knowledge, flexibility, indepence of action and thought, and an ability to network will prove to be the most desirable characteristics…
More on IT Workers and the Gathering Economic Storm at O’Reilly News
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Inspired by Lawrence Salberg’s review of Andrew Keen’s Cult of the Amateur, I downloaded the book with this month’s credit on my Audible account. I got an hour into the audio book today, and so far it’s like listening to Rush Limbaugh talk about the “Liberal Agenda”. Which is to say, his diatribes are made up of lots of false assumptions, punctuated with moments of accuracy, smeared in generalizations and couched in a rhetorical argument that only make sense if you believe the aforementioned assumptions.
With that out of the way, I agree with some of the points Andrew Keen makes, just not the conclusions he makes about them. Here are a handful of my initial impressions, stated conversationally as a response to his ideas: Continue reading ‘Andrew Keen, Full of Fail’
WordPress Exploit Scanner 0.1 has been released, in response to a comment on a recent thread about old versions of WordPress sites being hacked. You may have spotted this in your WordPress dashboard. Problem is, it only works for v2.5.1+, so it will only be useful in keeping you safe going forward. I just installed it on a basic WordPress site with K2, and got the following results:
Suspect Plugins
These plugin files look suspect. Please verify they are files you uploaded.
- ../themes/k2/app/includes/k2-sbm-loader.php
No suspicious posts or comments found
Hooray! No suspicious text found in your posts or comments tables!
For a brand new plugin that’s not bad, but throwing a false negative on such a popular theme is something that will need to be addressed. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.
Now this is cool. Media Temple, in partnership with Parallels, is going to soon be offering XServe virtual hosting with the ability to scale up to a full XServe’s worth of power and server resources. Offering everything an XServe has, including serving multiple web sites (including built-in wikis and blogs, whatever that means), iCal Server, Directory, and Time Machine backups - I’m hoping that it will prove to be useful for small group ware work and personal site hosting.
You can apply for the Private Beta here.
One of my photos was featured in the Chicago City Guide published by Schmapp. Well, they just launched an iPhone version of the Schmapp Chicago Guide. They’re sniffing the user agent string, so If you are using a desktop computer, this link will show exactly how the photo is displayed and credited in the iPhone version of their guide. The photo they featured is this one I took of the Allerton Hotel sign:
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