Technology Tips
Politics, What Flavor Are You?
Have something to say? ADD A NEW POST! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Some of the current topics, and responses on this blog have put me in a reflective, if not judgmental mood. There’s a common thread that loops it’s [...]
Yellowstone Supervolcano - Whats the risk?
Many major news outlets have reported on a swarm of recent earthquake activity in Yellowstone National Park. fears over earthquake ’swarms’ at yellowstone national park
It’s obvious that Yellowstone is volcanic in nature. That’s what creates the awesome geysers and boiling mud-pots throughout the park. But for a long time, scientists could not [...]
Internet Scams Hit Even Idaho Falls
Internet scams have been around for a long time. I remember a news report I saw on one of the major networks about two or three years ago that exposed how one internet scam was run. Recently I am receiving more and more emails that appear to be people fishing for gullible soles [...]
How You Can Write and Publish Articles for Idaho Falls and Southeast Idaho
Writing articles at IdahoFallz.com is free, easy, and pleasantly surprising how your ideas can kick start asynchronous interactive discussions among local people you’ve never met. I encourage anyone and everyone to write and publish their own articles that you feel relate to Idaho Falls and southeast Idaho.
Why write anything at all here? I said long [...]
Local News Station KPVI Stole My Work
This morning I discovered that our local NBC news affiliate KPVI published a news story on their website, and the graphic they used was stolen from my website, the IdahoFallz.com blog. You can see clearly from the attached images that they used my “IFPD” picture taken of an IFPD truck, originally published on IdahoFallz.com as [...]
Is Citizen Journalism Useful or Important?
I see news stories and tidbit phenomena almost daily about citizen journalism (a.k.a. participatory media and many other titles). Normal, everyday people who have no journalistic base have been technologically and psychologically enabled by the Internet to become citizen journalists. What has it meant so far, and where do you think it could go from [...]
How to not be stupid when dealing with technology
I hope to generate a meta-level discussion about wisdom and strategies when using technology. What I mean is we should discuss what technology means to us, how we need to adapt and re-orient our old frames-of-mind to the new digital world. Some things are radically different in technology, some things are the same. How to [...]
Charles Manson’s Helter Skelter Revisited
A lot happened in 1969 - we (allegedly, at least) landed on the moon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, boxer Rocky Marciano, Judy Garland, Jack Kerouac, and Boris Karloff all died, the US population hit 200 million, the Saturday Evening Post published for the last time, the Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight, at least 28 [...]
Tracking the 2008 Idaho Legislature
I hope this article and discussion can serve as a local resource for keeping track of what our legislature is doing this year. I also hope we can somewhat keep score of how southeast Idaho is doing in the legislature, and how our local Idaho Falls representatives and senators are working for us.
Unfortunately, paying attention [...]
How to Improve Southeast Idaho News Environment
I got notice that my online subscription to the Post Register expires this Wednesday. I do not think I will pay for a renewal, for a few reasons.
First, I really think I deserve a free subscription, given the huge amounts of free advertising I do for the PR on IFz. I must mention an article [...]
City-Wide Webcam Network Needed for Security
I got so mad about our not-yet-completed Equal Access Playground recently being vandalized. This is the playground with special features that enable handicapped kids to play more easily than they would at typical playgrounds. The folks involved with it spent many months raising money and driving the project forward. Some hooligans took just a short [...]
Idaho Falls Technology Users Group Proposed
I was recently listening to Leo Laporte’s podcast of his weekly radio show “The Tech Guy”. One caller was a lady dipping her toes into computers. She enrolled in a Microsoft Office class, and wanted advice buying her first computer. Leo immediately observed her “newby-ness”, and suggested she should first spend some time with a [...]
whew, slow day, time to all start commenting again!
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