Broken on Purpose: Why Getting It Wrong Pays More Than Getting It Right. Many of us managing Facebook fan pages have noticed something strange over the last year: how our reach has gotten increasingly ineffective.
How the messages we post seem to get fewer clicks, how each message is seen by only a fraction of our total “fans.” It’s no conspiracy. Facebook acknowledged it as recently as last week: messages now reach, on average, just 15 percent of an account’s fans. In a wonderful coincidence, Facebook has rolled out a solution for this problem: Pay them for better access. As their advertising head, Gokul Rajaram, explained, if you want to speak to the other 80 to 85 percent of people who signed up to hear from you, “sponsoring posts is important.” In other words, through “Sponsored Stories,” brands, agencies and artists are now charged to reach their own fans—the whole reason for having a page—because those pages have suddenly stopped working. This is a clear conflict of interest.
It doesn’t end with Facebook, either. 100+ Sites to Download All Sorts of Things. These days you can find all sorts of things online, from audio books to flash files, from sound effects to CSS templates.
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So, the idea is that you memorise just one, reasonably long/secure master password and use that to generate a set of non-dictionary passwords. Copy and paste the new password(s) into the website and set your web browser to remember them. All the websites get different passwords, but you only have to remember one! Using a different PC? You can re-generate the same set of passwords at any time by returning to this page and entering the same master password. For any website that's not on the list, just type the name into the 'Custom' box (the last one in the list) and press Generate. This password generator works using Javascript, entirely within the page, no data is ever passed back to my server. Credits Simon Sheppard, Sept 2016. Invisible. Secret-Internet. QUAKER-ROOTS-L Archives. 42 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed.
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And as we've seen in Egypt, that means that your Internet connection can be the first to go. Whether you're trying to check in with your family, contact your friends, or simply spread the word, here are a few ways to build some basic network connectivity when you can't rely on your cellular or landline Internet connections. Do-It-Yourself Internet With Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi. Find the Best Websites Rated by Topics.