I saw this article 10 Facebook Pages Every Marketer Should Follow and thought this is a very new way to ask people to follow news. Traditionally I'd just grab the RSS feed or subscribe to their Twitter feed. I thought FaceBook was more for the friends and social aspect.

Somehow I don't think this will be enough...

QuoteMilitary Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks

It's too late to stop WikiLeaks from publishing thousands more classified documents, nabbed from the Pentagon's secret network. But the U.S. military is telling its troops to stop using CDs, DVDs, thumb drives and every other form of removable media — or risk a court martial.

Maj. Gen. Richard Webber, commander of Air Force Network Operations, issued the Dec. 3 "Cyber Control Order" — obtained by Danger Room — which directs airmen to "immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET," the Defense Department's secret network. Similar directives have gone out to the military's other branches.

"Unauthorized data transfers routinely occur on classified networks using removable media and are a method the insider threat uses to exploit classified information. To mitigate the activity, all Air Force organizations must immediately suspend all SIPRNET data transfer activities on removable media," the order adds.

This topic has been moved to Trading Post.

http://th3core.com/talk/index.php?topic=466.0

Wouldn't want to be Julian Assange this week.

QuoteWikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List

Two days after Internet whistleblower WikiLeaks released 251,287 U.S. diplomatic cables to major media organizations including the New York Times and Der Spiegel, international police organization Interpol has placed founder Julian Assange on its wanted list for "Sex Crimes," in a warrant issued by the Public Prosecution Office in Gothenburg, Sweden.

While Assange might be facing criminal charges if he returns to his native Australia and is under investigation in the US for espionage, the Interpol mediated charges here are in connection with rape allegations made by two different Swedish women back in August.

While Interpol makes it clear that its infamous Red Notice list does not function as an international arrest warrant, it does serve the purpose of broadcasting internationally that the person in question is a fugitive and can aide in extradition process.

Assange, who has previously denied the allegations, is rumored to currently be hiding in the United Kingdom, which as of yet has not shown any signs of taking legal action. The @wikileaks Twitter account has remained dormant since news about the release went out.

QuoteThe Biggest iPad Subsidy Of All: Softbank Gives It Away. What's Behind It?

Softbank in Japan is preparing to launch a deal that offers users a 16GB iPad for free. That means Softbank joins Orange, T-Mobile and Three in the UK, and Orange France, in offering the device at a discount.

Called "iPad for Everybody," the Softbank promotion gives away a 16GB iPad if the user signs up to a 25-month contract for ¥4725 ($56; £36) per month.

On one hand this looks like the kind of deal that will encourage buyers who don't have the funds or inclination to fork out an upfront payment for a device.

But there could be more behind it. It's interesting to note that Apple's iPads are making discounted appearances first in those markets where the company is looking to extend its iAd service.

That's about $1400 for an iPad. Yikes.

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/credit-where-credit-is-due.html

QuoteNews publishers and readers both benefit when journalists get proper credit for their work. That can be difficult, with news spreading so quickly and many websites syndicating articles to others. That's why we're experimenting with two new metatags for Google News: syndication-source and original-source. Each of these metatags addresses a different scenario, but for both the aim is to allow publishers to take credit for their work and give credit to other journalists.

I'm sure they're thought around how easy it would be to spoof this? Come on. They're meta-tags.

I see that Google Voice has released an app for the iPhone finally. I know the Android app has been out forever.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-voice-for-iphone.html

We have a lot of smart people here not living in the US. Anyone figured out a way to use Google Voice from outside the US?

This one has me scratching my head...
http://blog.ask.com/2010/11/ask-for-iphone-take-that-google-bing.html

Somebody was saying that they had a FireFox extension that made unlinked URLs in webpage text clickable. Does anyone know of a similar extension in Chrome?

Since we have active links turned off here I thought it might save me a few  steps to check out some of the references being made here.

Here's an interesting open source script that will help you keep the bots at bay.

QuoteProtect Your Site with a Blackhole for Bad Bots

The concept is simple: include a hidden link to a robots.txt-forbidden directory somewhere on your pages. Bots that ignore or disobey your robots rules will crawl the link and fall into the trap, which then performs a WHOIS Lookup and records the event in the blackhole data file. Once added to the blacklist data file, bad bots immediately are denied access to your site. I call it the "one-strike" rule: bots have one chance to follow the robots.txt protocol, check the site's robots.txt file, and obey its directives. Failure to comply results in immediate banishment. The best part is that the Blackhole only affects bad bots: normal users never see the hidden link, and good bots obey the robots rules in the first place.

In five easy steps, you can set up your own Blackhole to trap bad bots and protect your site from evil scripts, bandwidth thieves, content scrapers, spammers, and other malicious behavior.

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