Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Believe it or not, I use search engines ALL DAY. It’s my job. I write Internet content, so I search information and write articles. I suspect I may soon become something of a walking encyclopedia someday. I have written SO many articles, everything! Stuff related to what bed bugs look like, how to reformat your [...]

You know what we webmasters and bloggers are being told, constantly? Content, content, content. That we must have good content– consistently– and the masses will come. But I do not think this is true (and Perez Hilton’s blog knocks the “only content” theory out of the water, anyway). You may have the BEST website, the [...]

Google’s invasive Street View mobile, a small car that drives along roads worldwide, snapping photos and soaking up wireless data, is coming under increasing hostility. South Korea has recently raided Google’s files. Bloomberg News reports: South Korean police raided Google Inc.’s Seoul office as part of an investigation into possible breaches of privacy laws resulting [...]

Wow. Unbelievable. Unbelievable that Google would do this, and even more unbelievable that so little is done to stop them. Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses Google’s roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it’s got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN [...]

I saw this excellent article by Paul Strassman (writing a guest post for Larry Dignan) at ZDNet. I admit, though- I did not know that government officials– in this case, the Department of Defense– use Gmail for their government correspondence. Holy cow! Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has been a consistent advocate of increasing [...]

It’s winter for us in the United States– that means more inside activities. For us, it means more reading. I have a stack of books that I’ve ordered from the library, but there are several books that I desire to read that my library does not carry (I like history books, especially ancient civilizations and [...]