Social Media Lesson

I have a very challenging question that really needs an answer:
How do we vet precious ideas without giving them away? Any answers?

Quote from Linux owner, Linus Torvalds:
‘I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. I believe in open development, and that very much involves not just making the source open, but also not shutting other
people and companies out.
‘There are ‘extremists’ in the free software world, but that’s one major reason why I don’t call what I do ‘free software’ any more. I don’t want to be associated with the people for whom it’s about exclusion and hatred.”’

Social Media Lesson
Remember the case of the tenant who made a malicious remark on Twitter, claiming that the company “didn’t care” about mold in her apartment. She only had 20 Twitter followers. The company called Horizon Realty Group filed a lawsuit against her. The next day, her case was an internet hit. Her remark for just 20 people has now found its way to hundreds of thousands.
There are so many websites and weblogs warning us that everything we put on the Net isn’t safe. We should thank her for the lesson.

McAfee Joke?!

Just for fun-
e-Mail security vendor McAfee spills 1400 private names!

ESPN’s Andrews Curses On-line

Cursing Britney Spears might bring joy to some people. But doing it on-line is a bad idea:

‘As if being videotaped in hotel rooms weren’t bad enough, ESPN’s Erin Andrews now has to deal with reporters outside her Georgia home, the New York Post reports. “I’m being treated like fucking Britney Spears and it sucks,” she complains to a 911 dispatcher. After describing herself as the “girl that was videotaped without her knowing, without her clothes on in the hotel,” she tells the dispatcher—who was unfamiliar with her case—”I’ve got two assholes sitting outside my house right now.”‘ New York Post

At least it’s doubtful now that the Andrews tape was a publicity stunt.

‘Peace Beer Party’ Creates Another War

The ‘peace beer party’ creates another war- this time with local beer producers:

‘President Obama’s next round of peacemaking beers at the White House might have to include US brewery owners, reports the Wall Street Journal. The cooling off confab today will be providing busted Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates and cop James Crowley’s favorite brews Red Stripe and Blue Moon, and some Bud Light for the president. All three, American brewers grumble, are made by foreign-owned companies.’ Wall Street Journal

The question now is who leaked the beer preferences? There should be an investigation.