From Robert Wesley McGrew's computer security blog. Describes how he busted the hacker GhostExodus.

A Ph.D. student who busted a hacker who infiltrated a hospital control system by analyzing YouTube videos that bragged about the process.

Nearly half the world's population now has a mobile device and more than a thousand cell phones are being activated every minute. The ubiquity of mobile devices will make new services available to billions of people worldwide who have not had access to traditional banks or credit cards. In developing countries such as Kenya - where nearly 80% of the population is excluded from the formal financial sector - text messaging is being used to transfer money to friends and family living in other countries. Moreover, new forms of currency are being created - trading cell phone minutes for goods and services, for example. This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities as banks go mobile, and how the revolution in mobile financial services will change the way we think about money.

Lower Merion School District is where the laptop webcam spying case is going on. Talk about little glass dots.

Michael Perbix is the school computer tech who is featured in a YouTube video explaining how to remotely activate the laptop cameras at the school district currently in hot water over spying on students. In this somewhat ironic blog post he warns other computer techs they should be blocking chatroulette in school firewalls.

South African teachers singing on a Skype call to Colorado.

I tried this tool for quickly grabbing part of a YouTube clip. Works pretty slick if you need a quick edit.

Teaching unions are complaining that e-safety software is being used against their members.

Open standard for embedding video on the web. An alternative to proprietary plugin technologies such as Flash.

Describes the culture surrounding open source software development. Gives insight into why people work for intangible benefits instead of only money.

I like the Penelope Trunk blog. She's often shocking, but typically has smart things to say regarding career advice.

This site clarifies US copyright law (if that is possible). Of particular interest is the 1923-1963 category where works would have passed into the public domain if the copyright was not renewed. The difficulty is in knowing if it was or not.

(September 25, 2009) Lukas Biewald of Delores Labs, discusses crowdsourcing applications like Mechanical Turk that utilize online workers to do menial tasks ...

"introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws."

This is a website created by Prof. Wendy Seltzer, the NFL / YouTube person.