Date: June 17th 2009

 

IN THIS ISSUE:

WEBWARRIOR: NICK DELEEUW, RIGHT MICHIGAN

 

This week’s WebWarrior is Nick DeLeeuw of Right Michigan. Nick was nominated by Melanie Hall (of The Michigan Tea Party Convention, who wrote:

…You really should check him out!! …He not only provides valuable info, but also resources for Michigan activists. He’s currently [as of May 22nd] running a contest for bloggers here, there’s a link on the home page. He’s also pretty active on twitter, and gets involved in panels and conferences on new media. Nick is a great guy and always willing to help out with conservative activities and events.

Well, we’re sorry we missed the contest, but glad that Melanie recommended Mr. DeLeeuw as a WebWarrior.

His site is part blog, part network for Michigan residents. He’s effectively using Twitter and Facebook to keep in touch with readers. His “In the Sphere” feature promotes fellow Michigan bloggers, and he stays involved in the local community by posting on employment rates (a big concern in Michigan currently), and promoting local charities, like the Alpha Center Women’s Life Walk.

His excellent online networking skills have earned him a 5/10 on Google Page rank and a Technorati authority rating of 208 (very good for a state-level blogger). His blog format and design in clean, professional, and easy to navigate and read.

Thanks to Melanie Hall of The Michigan Tea Party Convention for nominating this week’s WebWarrior.

 

If you’d like to nominate a “WebWarrior” (a conservative using Web 2.0 effectively) e-mail Jenn.

PROTECT YOURSELF

by TXPoet

Recently my computer started acting strange. During Google searches I was being redirected to generic search sites that would seem to set off my anti-virus, but a scan of my computer didn’t reveal any virus. I found a work around but knew somewhere in my computer there was a problem. This problem showed itself in IE7, FireFox, Safari, Chrome and Opera. Yes, I use all five browsers.

In the process of clearing the problem (which I later discovered was one of the many drive-by virus/trojan on the web, a type of Alureon trojan named Kung). After three days with some help from the nice folks over at Geekstogo.com (HT sage5) I was finally able to return my computer to normal.

I had thought that my computer was pretty well protected, but after getting into the problem I found that most of the programs I used were no longer “the best”.

I previously recommended to friends the following free programs; AVG Anti-Virus, Spybot: Search & Destroy and CCleaner. All are still good programs but they aren’t the best. It seems that the malcontents and criminals on the net have way too much time on their hands.

In order to protect yourself you might consider the following advice (This information is for PC users only).

First step is to ensure you don’t have any rootkit problems is to download, save and run the following program from your desktop.

http://eric71.geekstogo.com/tools/Rooter.exe

If you are good there then you must obtain a good anti-spyware program. The following are all highly recommended programs for your protection.

Make sure you are only running one real-time anti-spyware protection program (e.g.: TeaTimer, Windows Defender) or there will be a conflict.

Some of these programs have both a free and a paid version; read before starting download.

Some good free firewalls are Online Armor, Zone Alarm, Outpost or Sunbelt Personal Firewall.

Make sure you only use one firewall though. A tutorial on understanding and using firewalls may be found here.

These programs aid you in keeping your computer free of malware, but you will have to routinely update them and scan your computer frequently. Here’s wishing you happy (web) surfing.

INTERNET RANSPARENCY...REALLY?!

by Buffoon, of D=S

Surely even a liberal should notice the we want you to be able to see what we are doing bullbutter being fed to the state media by da gub’ment, regurgitated for lowly serf consumption,  no?

The inventor of the world wide web has been asked by the prime minister to help open up access to government data.

“I think there’s a public demand for transparency. This is way beyond party politics and beyond global borders,” Sir Tim said.

He said taxpayers’ money paid for the data so it should be available to them.

Me thinks this is akin to asking a HuffPo webmaster to reveal how they always end up tops at Digg… and… Anyone else see the parallel between Brown and Obama’s “transparency” rhetoric?

Click HERE to watch the video.

WHAT IS WEB 2.0?

by Orlando

This video gives a nice overview of Web 2.0 if you were curious about the history and application of it.

LINKS TO LEARN ABOUT THE NEW IRANIAN REVOLUTION...ONLINE

As we all know by now, there is a dispute over who won the most recent presidential election in Iran, and this dispute has turned into the “last straw,” for many of the people who are fed up with the oppressive Islamic regime that has been in Iran for the last thirty years. As commonly happens in oppressive governments, Iran shut down the free media, and also the peoples’ access to social networking sites like Facebook and FriendFeed (very popular in that region), but they underestimated Twitter.

So, the Iranian protesters, along with help from Twitter and the rest of the world), have been able to continue to get the news out about what is happening inside Tehran, Shiraz, and other cities where students and other protesters are rising up within the country of Iran.

Following are some links to learn about how this incredible online revolution (the first of its kind) is happening. Feel free to add your own in the comments (HERE), and we’ll add them to the post as time allows:

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