Filters Block 'Sinful Six'. “Meyer says that companies typically start out blocking what filtering firms call the 'sinful six' categories: pornography, gambling, illegal activities, hate sites, tasteless material and violent content. Then, the businesses begin looking at ways to raise productivity. That was the approach of John Belich, application support specialist at the St. Petersburg, [...]

The Tipping Blog – How Weblogs Can Turn an Idea into an Epidemic “Of course, every epidemic needs both a host and a virus to spread. If weblogs are the host organism, then the virus is nothing less than the humble hyperlink. In retrospect, links are the perfect vehicle for an ideavirus! Each link represents [...]

Yahoo! News – Email, Web at Work – Is the Free Lunch Over? Brace yourselves, corporate drones: one of the last bastions of work place relief — sneaking in some online shopping or snickering over an email joke — could be destined for universal banishment. Major corporations are increasingly classifying employee email and Internet privileges [...]

Bob Walder: For those of you looking for a low cost (i.e. free) firewall solution and who have a spare, low-powered machine hanging around with a network card or two in it I can heartily recommend IPCop. You can download the source if you must, but the easiest way is to download the ISO image, [...]

BBC.  Mira, Microsoft's new portable digital screen/tablet technology that connects to a hub PC, will be “out by Christmas” for around $500.  This is how Microsoft plans to soak up excess compute cycles on today's fast PCs:  use XP profiles to allow everyone in the home to have a digital screen/tablet that connects to a hub [...]

The Economist.  World-wide population growth will soon turn into a decline. ”…in the past decade, it has become increasingly clear that countries whose reproductive zeal had fallen below the 2.1 magic number were not isolated cases.”  For industrialized nations,1.85 is the new magic number.  The unexpected news was that developing nations are slowing their growth to the [...]

If you are not using the Google toolbar in your browser, get it.  One of the best items on it is the PageRank meter.  It provides immediate info on how well your site is doing in authority (as determined by cross linking and clicks on Google returns).  When you pass your mouse over it, a [...]

Ernie the Attorney blogs his thoughts on K-Logs.  He has an example from the legal world: >>>But, an industrious paralegal named Connie goes to court everyday to file things, and she is always learning the newest filing requirements because she is there in court everyday and learns first hand all the lastest court gossip (i.e. [...]

I hope Matt continues to build out this financial site.  I don't know what his background is, but it is a good idea.  High quality analysis on breaking financial news in key sectors is a perfect weblog topic.  Imagine a weblog on financial news related to a given sector (wireless vendors for example) by an industry insider.  He/she could [...]

Building taxonomies. Chapter 6 of Susan Conway's and Char Sligar's book Unlocking Knowledge Assets is available on Microsoft Press' site. The chapter entitled “Building Taxonomies” defines what taxonomies are, how they play a role in content management and how to build and maintain them. [ia/ - news for information architects]