Huckabee: We Should Stuff The Bomb Back In His Underwear. Why Serendipity Is Underrated. A nice reminder from Chris Brogan.
I recommend watching the entire talk—it's only 10 minutes. Here's what you need to know: as an observer and active participant of the social web for several years, I've seen the power of serendipity influence how business gets done. Business leads coming in through Twitter because the person inquiring somehow stumbled upon you via the web and after following you for a while, they decided it was time to talk business. It's like life. CONSPIRACY ROCK. There is No Money in Phishing (But It Still Won't Go Away) Phishing, the highly illegal scam of tricking people into revealing their logins and passwords by creating fake emails, Twitter messages, and/or websites, does not actually make phishers a lot of money.
A new paper (PDF) by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio from Microsoft Research argues that the basic laws of economics still apply to phishing. As phishing becomes easier, and as 'phishing kits' are being sold for less than $100, the actual income for each individual phisher has to come down. Phishing has become a "low-skill, low-reward business. " While, as the authors point out, the media has portrayed phishing as an easy (and illegal) way to make money, the reality is that too many phishers have joined the fray and that the income per phisher has been greatly depressed because of this. Phishers typically sell the logins and passwords they have harvested through their scams to other criminals online, who can then easily commit identity theft. How to Produce Great Web Video in a Whole Lot Less Time
[David Spark (@dspark) is a veteran tech journalist and the founder of Spark Media Solutions, a storytelling production company that specializes in live event production. He also blogs and does a daily radio report for Green 960 in San Francisco at Spark Minute.] Ten years ago when I worked at ZDTV (later to become TechTV) I made all the mistakes a first time producer can make in video production.
I shot too much video.