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O’Reilly Adds del.icio.us Tags To Articles

Our del.icio.us Folksonomy (Beta)
“We’ve just added del.icio.us tags to our articles. These are single keyword categories generated by the O’Reilly readers as they bookmark our articles in del.icio.us. The sum of these tags is a taxonomy (some say folksonomy) of articles that emerged from our readers rather than being handed down by our editors.“

Based on data supplied by del.icio.us, O’Reilly is adding popular folksonomy tags to it’s articles. The tag info will appear in the upper left hand corner of the article. This is a great way to tie content to the broader community and put it in some sort of context.

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Running XP As Non-Admin

Users Overlook XP’s Non-Admin Security
“Microsoft is sparing no expense to spread the Least-privileged User Account security gospel ahead of next year’s Longhorn launch, but a little-known fact—especially among IT administrators and end users—is that the technology is already available in the Windows operating system.“

The article references the nonadmin wiki as a good source for information and tools. It is run by Microsoft developers.

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New York Law School to Offer Certificate Law Practice Technology

New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy to Offer Certificate of Mastery in Law Practice Technology
“New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy is introducing a “Certificate of Mastery in Law Practice Technology”.Starting in the fall 2005 semester, students will be able to pursue this certificate, to be awarded as an honor upon graduation. Students receiving the certificate will have demonstrated mastery of particular technology skills –such as electronic litigation, online transactions, or courtroom technology–that will prepare them for law practice and distinguish them as especially qualified candidates for legal positions.

In order to receive the certificate, students complete a core curriculum in cyberlaw, intellectual property, and information law; attain at least four

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Clam AntiVirus Update

freshmeat.net: Project details for Clam AntiVirus
“This release introduces a number of bugfixes and cleanups. Possible descriptor leaks in archive unpackers and mishandling of fast track uuencoded files have been fixed in libclamav. Database reloading in clamav-milter has been improved.“

I’ve been waiting for this update:) We’ve been having issues with the db reload in clamav-milter, especially when under load from worm email.

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NYT Finds Blogging Via Cellphone…

Software Lets Bloggers Post via Cellphone – New York Times
“A handful of companies have begun offering software that allows people to read and write blogs on cellular phones. The concept, known in some circles as moblogging, lets bloggers take pictures, record sound and type in text while on the go.

This month, the Intercasting Corporation, which is based in San Diego, became the first mobile blog company to enter into a partnership with a major cellular phone provider, Verizon Wireless.“

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Tracking Down Folksonomies

Folksonomic Discovery
“Gataga will display its folksonomic search results as an RSS feed (just as Technorati does), which is very useful: you can subscribe to stay updated. But there are big missing pieces in this application. For one thing, it doesn’t include 43 Things and Flickr, off the beaten track of social bookmarking spanning web content, but far and away my favorites for fun and utility as self-tagging folksonomies.“

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WebObjects Now Free To Tiger Users

Slashdot | WebObjects Now Free With Tiger
“Macworld reports that has Apple released WebObjects as a free application. From $50,000 to free, the software used to build the iTunes Music Store and Dell’s original online store is now available for free to Tiger users via Xcode 2.1.” From the article: ” The software has historical importance to Apple-watchers: it was originally released in March 1996 – but not by Apple. In fact, WebObjects was developed by NeXT Computer and became Apple’s software only when that company acquired Steve Jobs’ second computer company later that year. While not software on the tip of every Mac users tongue, WebObjects sits behind several significant implementations – the most famous current example being Apple’s iTunes Music Store.“