Michael Gracie » Wall Street Journal http://michaelgracie.com Clever Tagline Unavailable At Publication Time Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:43:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en On Tuesdays, hackers read newspapers and eat Ramen noodles http://michaelgracie.com/2007/07/17/on-tuesdays-hackers-read-newspapers-and-eat-ramen-noodles/ http://michaelgracie.com/2007/07/17/on-tuesdays-hackers-read-newspapers-and-eat-ramen-noodles/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:25:15 +0000 Michael Gracie http://michaelgracie.com/2007/07/17/on-tuesdays-hackers-read-newspapers-and-eat-ramen-noodles/

Not a regular day, and not expected to be a regular post either…

  • It looks like Rupert Murdoch may get the Wall Street Journal, despite the fear that he’ll turn it into Fox News on paper. I don’t know what everyone is scared about - the WSJ already seems to have pretty strong opinions - the fact that they don’t mind expressing them with the latest technology makes me curious as to what News Corp could possibly do to enhance it in the face of such dismal overall newpaper performance. Keep your eyes and ears open on this one.
  • There are at least 20 ways to aggregate all your social networking profiles. That means there are way too many social networking services out there that don’t differentiate themselves enough, and that hackers/identity thieves don’t have to attack near as many places as they did before.
  • And vosnap, the startup company in the freeze-dried, shrink-wrapped package that 70 people took camping for the weekend is making progress. They’ve changed their homepage, added a blog of their own, and are splattering the content with a combination of wit and humbleness in preparation for live time. In my eyes, the latter means a lot - I’d say this one is going places.

    • UPDATE: On a side note, AskTheVC, the online Q&A sessions with Boulder-based Foundry Group’s gang, has some additional competition. It’s Marc Andreessen, who exploded onto the tech blogging scene just a few months ago. As more VCs open up, it is going to be interesting to see what disagreements arise (as well as whether some decide to “opinionate” in lockstep just before they do deals together).

    UPDATE 2: I’ll repeat: the Wall Street Journal already has pretty strong opinions. But I guess it’s gospel now that Bill Clinton said it.

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    The Register reports that the recently discovered threats are largely academic, noting too much interaction is needed on one, and that another was released as a proof of concept out of academia itself. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is all over the topic, quoting a Symantec engineer who is predicting a “gradual erosion” of OS X security as the platform continues its popularity climb.

    No matter which way this issue heads, I’ll still be chuckling over one Slashdot commenter’s take on the WSJ position…

    “A Symantec engineer predicts a ‘gradual erosion’ of the idea that Macs are a safer operating system than Windows.

    Now there’s a neutral party with no agenda when it comes to security!

    Honestly, the worst Mac malware I’ve seen so far had a Symantec sticker on the box.”

    This is what he was referring to.

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