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Hackers Explore New Territories for Cracking Your Password

Tech Soup

Ars Technica reports that hackers are expanding their password cracking frontiers into Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics, and other works of literature or writing. Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulu" and it is noted in a Wikipedia entry. Password hackers are using some new tactics to break into your online accounts.

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4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features

Connection Cafe

I'll try to keep the tech jargon to a minimum, but no promises. If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.”

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6. It is also cross platform.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6. It is also cross platform.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. Stats are better for long term trends or very short events (like measuring a "digg effect" or getting Tech Crunched). Act 1: Analytics This!

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. If you want to find out who else uses what social bookmarking service in the nonprofit tech sector, check out Social Source Commons. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. Introduction.