Posted by: admin in News on May 25th, 2007

The News Review:

- BlogSecurity examines blog security online
- CBS Audience Network Adds 13 Community Social Partners
- Carrick-on-Shannon Community News 25 May 2007
- Pixelodeon 2007 Celebrates Independent Artists and Showcases nline…
- Box.net File Sharing Application Becomes Available on Facebook®…
- C&RL News article.

BlogSecurity examines blog security online
Monsters and Critics.com – May 25, 2007
\nBlogSecurity and the report can be located online. The sample fifty websites in total was collected to see exactly what version of the popular blogging script was installed. ut of the fifty sites sampled the results were a little scary or “frightening to say the least” Kierznowski said. “In summary out of the first fifty blogs we selected forty-nine of them are potentially vulnerable to known attacks. Now the level of vulnerability was not discussed but some of the version numbers listed are no longer supported and that in itself poses a risk… Criminals use flaws found in older software packages to launch the ‘drive-by’ attacks by hijacking the websites where the Malware is hosted. \nIf that is not a big reason to upgrade then there is the feature aspect you might be missing. Most new versions of WordPress that were non-security related offered several new functions and bug fixes. The newest release (WordPress 2. 2) is just nine days old. It has no security fixes but contains several bug fixes that make websites using WordPress function better. The last version of WordPress to get a security fix was 2.

CBS Audience Network Adds 13 Community Social Partners
MediaPost Publications – May 25, 2007
The agreements are designed to empower the embedding of clips from CBS shows into user profiles Web sites blogs wikis widgets and community pages. The new CBS Audience Network partners and their areas of functionality are: Automattic–blogging software (WordPress); Clearspring–widgets; DAVE Networks–social community platform; Goowy Media–widgets; meebo–instant messaging; MeeVee–video aggregator; MuseStorm–content syndication; Ning — social networking’ RockYou!–widgets; Slide–personalized photos and videos; VideoEgg–videos and video ads for communities; Voxant–news and advertising syndication (TheNewsRoom); vSocial–social networking for video. Content syndication partners for full-length CBS shows as announced last month include AL Microsoft CNET Comcast Joost Bebo Brightcove Netvibes Sling Media and Video. Distribution deals that were already in place for CBS online content prior to the launch of the audience network include Amazon UnBox and Apple. Leave a Reply You must be signed in to comment.

Carrick-on-Shannon Community News 25 May 2007
Leitrim bserver – May 25, 2007
Join us for worship and reflection. Dr Ken Baker is continuing the teaching on “The baptism of the Holy Spirit. com for further information. Library Book Sale for Special lympicsLeitrim County Libraries will hold a book sale in Carrick-on-Shannon Library on Thursday 31st May and Friday 1st June during Library opening hours 11am to 2pm and 3pm to 6pm both days. The sale includes fiction non-fiction and children’s books so all book lovers should attend.

Pixelodeon 2007 Celebrates Independent Artists and Showcases nline…
prweb.com – May 25, 2007
"ther co-founders are new media content producers Jay Dedman Zadi Diaz Irina Slutsky and Steve Woolf. Festival SponsorsThe Pixelodeon 2007 sponsors are all concerned with empowering and inspiring the independent content creator. This year's sponsors include: Theater Sponsors — DivX SpinXpress Blip. tv Wordpress Blogger; Event Festivities Sponsor — Revver; Sustaining Sponsor — MyWaves. About PixelodeonPixelodeon celebrates diversity and talent in online video and provides audiences with the opportunity to discover the most innovative new work from pioneering digital media creators. Web content creators represent a powerful new force in media and the mainstream has taken notice. Pixelodeon will bring the two together to share knowledge to discover common goals and to build relationships.

Box.net File Sharing Application Becomes Available on Facebook®…
prweb.com – May 25, 2007
net provides secure online file sharing and storage to almost a million registered individuals and companies worldwide. Redefining file transfer the Box platform allows personal and commercial content to be accessible sharable and storable in any place and in any format. Applications and services that have partnered with Box include RCA Small Wonder Wordpress. net also provides online media sharing for a wide range of high profile artists including 311 Bright Eyes and Eve.

C&RL News article.

American Libraries nline – May 25, 2007
They wanted our help in setting up technology to facilitate daily postings as the trip progressed to handle other technology needs as they were identified and to serve as the trip photographer. Wiki and blog software were recent additions to our library Web site and this course offered an opportunity to pilot the potential academic use of wikis and blogs. We developed a site using MediaWiki software to present course content and WordPress blog software for participants’ daily reflections. All course participants had full access to add and modify content in all applications. Through this approach we hoped to encourage students to post their own reflections photos and assignments. And because we thought people might like to visually track our travel progress we established a Google Map that pinpointed the places we visited.

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