Author Archive for Markku Seguerra

Reuters Issues Guidelines on Photoshop Use

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Ethics, Journalism | 2 Comments

A few months ago, top news agency Reuters was severely criticized for publishing digitally altered photos from Lebanon. The unfortunate incident is now better known as the “Adnan Hajj photographs controversy,” leaving a dark blemish in the use of digital photography for news reportage.

WordPress 2.0.7 Released

January 16, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Software | Leave a Comment

Just ten days after releasing version 2.0.6, WordPress 2.0.7 is now available for public download. This update addresses a PHP security issue in certain versions of the popular scripting language, as well as a Feedburner problem that was inadvertently introduced in 2.0.6. Similar to the previous updates, the WordPress team labels this as a recommended [...]

Announcing Habari: The New WordPress?

January 12, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Software | 1 Comment

Have you heard about Habari? Habari is a new blogging platform from familiar names formerly associated with WordPress. The project was announced by Chris J. Davis earlier this month, who’s one of the core developers of the new weblog publishing application.
But is there space for another WordPress alternative?

Recommended Update: WordPress 2.0.6

January 7, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Software | 2 Comments

In light of the recently reported cross–site scripting vulnerabilities in WordPress, version 2.0.6 has been released to address the said issues in the templates.php file as detailed in these entries from Operation N and Security Focus. (As cited in our related coverage.)
Along with the aforementioned fixes, changes were made specific to the comments system, now [...]

Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogfights

January 5, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, Opinion | 2 Comments

What makes blogs and bloggers prone to blogfights? Wired just ran a story on the best blogfights of 2006 and I’m sure most of us are aware of at least one of those listed. Remember Kevin Rose vs. Jason Calacanis?
But what really brings bloggers to quarrel?

Is Digg A Valid Search Engine Result?

January 3, 2007 | Filed Under Digg, Search, Social Media | 3 Comments

Over at Search Engine Journal (and at digg.com), there is a discussion regarding digg.com pages showing up at google.com search results, along with the actual link to the relevant story or article. However, there have been instances where the digg page ranks higher than the actual link.
Do you think digg shouldn’t be in google’s results?

Is Your Password Secure?

December 29, 2006 | Filed Under MySpace, Security, Social Media | 2 Comments

Several weeks ago, a phishing attack on popular social networking site MySpace.com managed to harvest thousands of actual usernames and passwords. These users were tricked into entering their account details in a hosted user page that was intentionally designed to appear like a legitimate MySpace login page. Since the page’s URL was within the myspace.com [...]

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