This morning saw a sharp rise in the markets – known as a “dead cat bounce” by financial analysts. After a spectacular crash, the stock markets often rebound sharply – but this isn’t a real indication of improvement. Apparently, even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height.
Wondering how [...]
There comes a time, usually if you’re working remotely or have no office, where you really need a way to share files, documents, messages and pictures online between a lot of people for free.
Easy, I said at my last Amnesty International meeting, we’ll just set up a Google non-profits account – all their project management [...]
Are you a hacker who’s socially minded? A few weeks ago we wrote about how Estonian hackers were assisting Georgia with online defenses against ‘cyber attacks’ by the Russians.
The latest twist is that Wired (who cracked this story in the first place) has put a link to an open-source defense project on their blog ‘Danger [...]
A remote funding developer. They work from home, they take up less support costs and they don’t involve supervisory time – what’s not to love? I worked as a remote funding researcher recently, and while I’m not willing to flat out say it doesn’t work (comments welcome from people doing just fine at this job) [...]
When violence exploded in Georgia this week, the Estonians helped out the Georgians in an unusual way – by keeping the Georgian news website ‘Civil.ge‘ up and running despite attempts from the Russians to hack it. Wired broke this weird story of the Estonians and Google getting political – you can read it here.
What [...]
Congratulations. The staff meeting isn’t going badly so far. Everyone’s agreed that your web page has to be redone and your tech intern is bubbling with suggestions and terms you’ve (sort of) encountered before like ‘wiki-platforms’, ‘social networking’ and ‘web 2.0’. Just before you’re totally lost, the intern rolls their eyes and tries to bottom-line [...]
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