There are some big holes in Microsoft Exchange that could let an attacker seize control of a machine and run arbitrary code. The holes could let in someone who wants to unleash a worm or a virus. Systems affected include those running Windows NT, XP, 2000.
Microsoft has some patches ...   more »

There's already all sorts of comments and Trackbacks for a post Jay Rosen made to his blog, PressThink. I've never met him but he sounds like a smart guy and he knows a lot about my job. That's because he runs New York University's journalism school.

Now, I've read ...   more »

John Warnock, the co-creator of the Postscript language that lets us print beautiful documents and the co-founder of Adobe Systems, is surely the best friend online journalism ever had. He is single-handedely keeping Salon afloat.
Back in February I and lots of other journalists wrote that it seemed ...   more »

At least Chris Cummer thinks so. He's an all-around nice guy, too, although considerably smarter than me. Chris noted the other day that I had a blog and wondered what that meant for conflicts between what journalists want to blog about and what their employers want them to write about. ...   more »

Tom Mangan writes on the listserv for the Society of Professional Journalists:
Hi all,
Wanted to let you know about the Web log for newspaper editors I've been doing for the past couple months.    more »

While much of the rest of the world takes the consumer-friendly position that wireless cell phone numbers ought to be portable, Canada still lags behind in this respect, my Globe colleague Dave Ebner reports this morning.
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Just ran across an ad for the following book while catching up on my reading:
Feeding the Media Beast: An Easy Recipe for Great Publicity
By Mark Mathis
Explains how to deal with journalists in a systematic way from the newsperson's point of view and establishes only 12 rules that ...   more »

FWIW, I've signed up with GeoURL and indexed the RSS feed of this site at LocalFeeds. Both services try to put a little bit of reality into the ether that is the online world.   more »

Researcher Eli Noam says in his paper, The Internet: Still Wide Open and Competitive?,: "We have found pronounced horizontal and vertical trends of concentration in the Internet sector. What are the implications? It would take a lengthy essay to fully analyze this question. But some implications can be anticipated: ...   more »

I love wi-fi, the wireless fidelity standard that lets people access a high-speed Internet connection over short distances. My home is wi-fi enabled and I try to evangelize for the standard wherever I go. A lot of folks, though, think Wi-Fi is dangerous:   more »