Setting up your new Acer Aspire One linux netbook
The Acer Aspire One netbook is out to prove that Linux is something even Grandma can use (as long as she has little fingers and superb eyesight). It has a very simple application launcher, with…
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“Instant Websites” teaching case nominated for award
Our teaching case, using WordPress as a simple content management system for small business, has been nominated for the Best Teaching Case Award at the 2008 WITS Technology Instruction in Business Curriculum Competition. Nice! The…
Risk assessment in information security: Makes users happy, but not done often enough
The October issue of the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce has published our research on “The State of Risk Assessment Practices in Information Security“. It’s not easy to get data on information security…
Mass production of knowledge: Slides
Slides from my talk on “Web 2.0, Open Source, and the Mass Production of Knowledge: Why Collective Platforms Might Hold the Key to Understanding a Knowledge-Based Economy” are now available. Thanks to the USF Faculty…
The world’s smallest online businesses: Blogshops
The US has about 20 million businesses with only one person–the owner. Except for rare cases like plentyoffish.com (the #6 online dating service in the US, and #1 in Canada, serving hundreds of thousands of…
5 things you can do with your customers online
Slides from my mini-lecture, 5 things you can do with your customers online, are here as promised. Originally offered as part of our MBA orientation, with a new version for our undergraduate welcome event in…
The one-click install, do-it-yourself web revolution
While WordCamp 2008 attendees were likely impressed with the huge number of page views (6.5 billion per year – roughly one for every person on the planet) and monthly unique visitors (up to 160 million…
Using WordPress as a small business website
I’ve developed a teaching module that helps students start to create a simple business web site using WordPress. The students launch a new site on a web host via an install script, come up with…
Announcing the exciting new “You belong in tech” campaign
Tech is back, people. Two huge reasons: Tech is still innovating big-time. Thanks to innovation, tech-centric industries (software, networks, online, services), and closely related industries (electronics, telcos, digital media, entertainment, gaming, tech consulting), are going…
Virtual Worlds 101: Panel at National Institute on Cyberlaw
I created this 10-minute introduction to Virtual Worlds (think Second Life, but also online games like World of Warcraft and social networks with ‘rooms’ like Cyworld) for the panel on “Legal Developments in Virtual Reality”…