HIST 390-001 The Digital Past Fall 2013

Hey guys, I thought this would help with the 5 comments and questions we have to submit, its an interesting way to learn how to give constructive criticism. I was having problems with this earlier.

researchers says that 0pen-source software projects need to improve vulnerability-handling practices,

Madalyn's presentation informed all of us on how Instagram started and about its founder, Kevin Systrom. This article explains to new feature of Instagram. Now your followers can view photos that other people have uploaded and you can be tagged in photos as well.

It's a list composing of free accessible, open source software for different categories such as finance and even computer simulation.

If you want to know about the highlighting moments in the history of Open Source, here it is.

We heard from Mahrokh the other day about Snowden's email provider Lavabit shutting down -- turns out they've come back with a program called "Dark Mail." By the way, did you know that the email state employees (such as faculty like me who work at state-funded universities like GMU) are all technically public records? As long as the email isn't covered by student privacy acts like FERPA, anyone can request to see my GMU email because it's a public record. Technically.

wow, this is a great a article! I was actually thinking about what they were going to do after Lavabit and Silent Circle both closed their e-mail systems, especially since Zimmerman was not one of those people who seemed to stop coming up with new ideas. Its interesting to see how this new technology plays out.

Multiple sources licensed under creative commons.

A friend of mine on Twitter said that he remembers when the MIME format for email attachments was competing with the UUencode format for email attachments -- kind of like VHS versus Betamax. Here's the Wikipedia article on the format that lost.

For my upcoming presentation i just wanted to share a little background knowledge of who i am presenting on! Enjoy!

Just a few tips to consider if/when you feel your audience is losing interest. A lot of these tips are common sense and straight forward. However, although they are simple, at the same time they can be easily overlooked and under utilized. Lastly, most of these would not work with our class presentations. They are geared more towards larger presentations that take up more time.

A great list for those that are still unsure about using powerpoint for their presentations.

For those who still have not decided what presentation software to use, here is a list of alternatives from those that offer cool transitions and animations to those that are actually animated.

Some tips for making a PowerPoint Presentation

Forbes tips on how to make a great presentation

These are just some tips that can help us all with our presentations. Some of them are for a lengthier presentation but overall the are pretty helpful!

I thought this would help with the "how to be interesting" section of our presentations, which of course is 10% of the grade! I've always had problems with making presentations that are boring.

Mega.com's Vikram Kumar explains why he's building private but not anonymous e-mail, why you won't see Google investing in end-to-end encryption, and lessons learned from the summer of Snowden. Im doing my project with a similar subject so I thought this would be a good article to share in regards to privacy online.