Some Web Apps Work Better Together (ReadWriteWeb)

How many new websites can you fit in a Volkswagen Beetle? Sometimes it feels like that's what we're trying to do these days - but all these new applications and services don't have to be crammed into our heads and lives as separate things to try out and remember. Many new technologies work best in concert; the functionality of one application can be vastly improved by using it together with ...

New Life for Old Macs (PC World)

For its fiscal third-quarter, Apple sold a record number of Macs, the fourth time in five quarters that it had broken its own...

Comment spammers never take a holiday (Guardian Unlimited)

It's the silly season for comment spam. Why else would spammers be promoting mercury vapour lamps, poker and porn in late July? While they're lying on a beach somewhere, their spamming software remains hard at work paying for the next long-haul holiday. If you run a blog, then dealing with comment spam is an around-the-clock operation too. I've now attracted more than 342,000 blog spam ...

New life for old Macs (Macworld)

Just because you’ve upgraded to a new Mac doesn’t mean your old machine is finished. James Dempsey has several suggestions for ways that creative professionals can squeeze more life out of aging hardware.

Presented By: Here, There and Everywhere (Tom’s Hardware)

   My boss is one of the best natural brainstormers Iâ€?ve ever had the pleasure to work with. An hour in his office, where 3 walls are covered in whiteboard, is intellectually exhausting and often results in a creative rush that is practically impossible to describe. Thatâ€?s the good news. The bad news is that you really [...] ciscoetl.wordpress.com Subscribe to Feed ...

Wenceslao: Gray areas (Sun Star)

FUNNY how assessment of the state of a nation can be as contrasting. Even as President Arroyo's State of the Nation Address (Sona) endeavored to portray the situation we are in as like a half-full glass of water, her critics are insisting it is half empty. One paints a glowing picture of our situation, the other is seeing only gloom. Classic black and white lines.

First Cabinet-level blogger details his one-year experiment (Ars Technica)

Health and Human Services director Michael Leavitt is the first Cabinet member to author a blog. His thoughts on why he sticks with it inside. Read More...

Get blogging already (Juice)

Millions of writers populate the blogosphere, giving themselves a little exposure - and you something to do at work. A few Des Moines-based bloggers...

Many popular websites host malicious code (Macworld UK)

IBM and Websense are separately issuing their semiannual security trend reports this week, and the picture isn't pretty for websites, open source software and social networking programs.

12-year-old Venturan to help set goals for healthy living (Ventura County Star)

Twelve-year-old Natalie Smith of Ventura has played basketball since she was 5; has won multiple awards for her photography, academic and athletic abilities; and her mother is a fellow with the Food & Society Policy Fellows program.