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“Digital dirt”: It’s a relatively new term used to describe the unprofessional, often risky and even potentially scandalous information and images that people post about themselves online, from pictures of intoxication-induced escapades to blog rants about anything from professors to politics. Central Michigan University Director of Career Services Julia Barlow Sherlock is available to comment […]
This has been a big year for online search. The number of people using search engines on an average day jumped from roughly 38 million in June 2004 to about 59 million in September 2005 – an increase of about 55%, according to a study just released from Dogpile.com - the metasearch engine that searches […]
I used to love Wikipedia, the collaorative online user-contributed encylopedia. But because it has been open to anyone to post or add to articles, too many of its entries are questionale or self-serving. Sometimes they’re mean-spitited and intentionally false. Because there are so many warped and twisted people out there who, like hackers, want to […]
From my F5ee Press column today… more proof that eBay is the way to sell anythng and that there are people waiting to pay a fortune for the stuff gathering dust in the basement: MIKE WENDLAND: Pile of vintage toys rakes in cash on eBay.
Is this really a disorder? Or media hype? Whatever, I’m pretty sure I have it. Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way.
The old saying that it’s pretty hard to ever really erase something from a computer sure seems true in this case. Accused wife-killer Googled ‘Neck,’ ‘Snap,’ Among Other Words.