Brian Krebs has a story in Tuesday's Washington Post about a new trend in the ongoing saga of Internet-based fraud. Apparently, criminal groups, many based in Eastern Europe, are focusing their attention on small- and medium-sized businesses in the US, and stealing electronic banking credentials in order to carry out fraudulent wire transfers.

My blog has been quiet of late, much due to the fact that I have been immersed in work related to the pending launch of The Rapidian, a new citizen journalism project in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A project of the Grand Rapids Community Media Center (with support from the GR Community Foundation and the Knight Foundation), it is an ambitious endeavor and we are just 20 days from launch. It combines a web based journalism structure with neighborhood news bureaus.

So you've become part of the twitter world. You set up your account and start following people like crazy. But you begin to get discouraged. Few are following you back and a fair number are actually blocking you from following them. What gives?

On Thursday, July 16th, I had the pleasure of presenting a two-hour seminar on "new media for nonprofit organizations". In the audience were 55 or so representatives of organizations in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Brought together by the Winnipeg Foundation, the seminar was designed to introduce new media tools and providing guidelines about how an organization develops a communications strategy given all of the social networking and online content tools available.

Have you heard about babies being thrown from roofs for their own good as some kind of traditional ritual? My guess is that you haven't, unless you read about it in the last year or two in some foreign publication. There have been news stories about this baby throwing "ritual" abroad and the impression created is that this is a traditional Indian ritual.

I spent the summer finishing up a paper that I have been working on (off-again, on-again) for the better part of a year. The paper grew out of a seemingly simple question I tried to answer a couple of years ago, namely: if I put something into the public domain, can I take it out again?

As a web entrepreneur, there are a few times a year when I travel
out of town and I really must have a mobile Internet connection. This
is not very often, usually just twice a year when on vacation or
visiting friends. So I've been searching for an inexpensive but
quality solution that doesn't chain me to a monthly expense.

Two different influenza vaccines will be available in the fall of 2009. Many readers of virology blog have asked why these four virus strains will not be combined into a single, tetravalent formulation. I posed this question to Dr. Ruben Donis, chief of the molecular virology and vaccines branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As expected, the new budget projections from the Office of Management and Budget show an estimated deficit of $1.58 trillion in the current year (which ends on September 30). In their coverage of the dueling budget releases, many members of the media are noting that this estimate is almost identical to the $1.59 trillion estimate released by the Congressional Budget Office.

Over the past 3 decades people of Pittsburgh worked hard together to get a bright future. As a result it has become a model for economic and environmental changes. The life of people has also transformed with great ease and diversity, which lead to a balanced and bouncing economy.

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