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Safari user, sometime StumbleUpon user. Don’t like having to remember to use Firefox to favorite a site in StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon has a WebToolbar but for some reason does not provide instructions for setting up a Bookmarks Bar button to it ala Delicious.

In Safari make a new bookmark in your Bookmarks Bar called “StumbleUpon” with the following address:

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<p>Safari user, sometime <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.stumbleupon.com');">StumbleUpon</a> user. Don&#8217;t like having to remember to use Firefox to favorite a site in StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon has a <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.stumbleupon.com');">WebToolbar</a> but for some reason does not provide instructions for setting up a Bookmarks Bar button to it ala <a href="http://delicious.com/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/delicious.com');">Delicious</a>.</p> <p>In Safari make a new bookmark in your Bookmarks Bar called &#8220;StumbleUpon&#8221; with the following address:<br /> <code><br /> javascript:(function(){location.href='http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);})()</code></p> <p>It opens the page you are currently on within the StumbleUpon web toolbar so you can thumbs up or thumbs down it.</p> <p> <!-- this elaborate effort is to circumvent google analytics external link rewrites --></p> <div id="writeLink"></div> <p><script type="text/javascript"> var writeLinkDiv = document.getElementById("writeLink"); var label = document.createElement('p'); label.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Or just drag the link below into your bookmark bar:")) var a = document.createElement('a'); a.setAttribute('href', "javascript:(function(){location.href='http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);})()"); a.appendChild(document.createTextNode("StumbleUpon")); writeLinkDiv.appendChild(label); writeLinkDiv.appendChild(a); </script></p> <div class="slashdigglicious"> <a href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/slashdot.org');" title="Slashdot It!"><img src="http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico" height="16" width="16" alt="[Slashdot]" /></a> <a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/digg.com');" title="Digg This Story"><img src="http://digg.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Digg]" /></a> <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/reddit.com');" title="Reddit"><img src="http://reddit.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Reddit]" /></a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=&amp;title=" title="Save to del.icio.us" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/del.icio.us'); window.open("http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&amp;noui&amp;jump=close&amp;url=&amp;title=', 'delicious', 'toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); return false;"><img src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="[del.icio.us]" /></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.facebook.com');" title="Share on Facebook"><img src="http://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Facebook]" /></a> <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');" title="Add to my Technorati Favorites"><img src="http://technorati.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Technorati]" /></a> <a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&amp;output=popup&amp;bkmk=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.google.com');" title="Save to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Google]" /></a> <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.stumbleupon.com');" title="Stumble it!"><img src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[StumbleUpon]" /></a> </div><p style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"><b>Originally published at <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/04/27/creating-a-safari-link-button-to-favorite-a-site-with-stumbleupon-webtoolbar/">Ken H. Judy</a>. Please leave any <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/04/27/creating-a-safari-link-button-to-favorite-a-site-with-stumbleupon-webtoolbar/#comments">comments</a> there.</b></p>

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I am ambivalent about the Scrum community’s focus on process and tools.

Yes, it is this effort that has driven adoption and created an economy for us practitioners. But adoption is yesterday’s challenge. We’re kind of winning that one.

We need to place less emphasis on getting new organizations to try Scrum to more on getting existing teams practice Scrum better.

DSCN1768.jpgHow many of us many, many Scrum adopters strive towards the potential of the practice?

  • Where reliable software delivers monetary return to sponsors because it is truly valuable to end users.
  • Where individual contributors are allowed to bring their most creative effort to the workplace to the benefit of both employers and end users.
  • Where workers are allowed to live rewarding lives outside the workplace to the betterment of their families and communities.

Not just exceptional productivity - ambitious enough as that is — but exceptional productivity to a genuinely productive end.

Life is full of compromise but if that is not the aspiration — to fill our careers with as much of these achievements as possible — then why bother?

Why spend money on training and tools to deliver more waste on short, iterative cycles?

Why extract more lines of code that no one will test or use but only spend money to maintain?

Why use the Scrum process to perpetuate the alienation of the knowledge worker from their work?

Mastery means taking responsibility for ourselves and our peers. Grasping our practice is the sum of our intentions and actions in the service of something.

So here’s my plea to shift the conversation back to it’s roots.

“Agile” is about the material and human good we create when we respect our co-workers tell truth to our employers, strive to improve, and care for the people affected by the software we help build.

We use a tool or process to the degree it furthers that end and no farther.

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<p>I am ambivalent about the Scrum community&#8217;s focus on process and tools. </p> <p>Yes, it is this effort that has driven adoption and created an economy for us practitioners. But adoption is yesterday&#8217;s challenge. We&#8217;re kind of winning that one.</p> <p>We need to place less emphasis on getting new organizations to try Scrum to more on getting existing teams practice Scrum better.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/judykat/2639593636/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.flickr.com');" title="DSCN1768.jpg by kenjudy, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2639593636_614d2cd5a3.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN1768.jpg" /></a>How many of us many, many Scrum adopters strive towards the potential of the practice? </p> <ul> <li>Where reliable software delivers monetary return to sponsors because it is truly valuable to end users. </li> <li>Where individual contributors are allowed to bring their most creative effort to the workplace to the benefit of both employers and end users. </li> <li>Where workers are allowed to live rewarding lives outside the workplace to the betterment of their families and communities.</li> </ul> <p>Not just exceptional productivity - ambitious enough as that is &#8212; but exceptional productivity <em>to a genuinely productive end</em>. </p> <p>Life is full of compromise but if that is not the aspiration &#8212; to fill our careers with as much of these achievements as possible &#8212; then why bother? </p> <p>Why spend money on training and tools to deliver more waste on short, iterative cycles? </p> <p>Why extract more lines of code that no one will test or use but only spend money to maintain?</p> <p>Why use the Scrum process to perpetuate the alienation of the knowledge worker from their work?</p> <p>Mastery means taking responsibility for ourselves and our peers. Grasping our practice is the sum of our intentions and actions in the service of something.</p> <p>So here&#8217;s my plea to shift the conversation back to it&#8217;s roots. </p> <p>&#8220;Agile&#8221; is about the material and human good we create when we respect our co-workers tell truth to our employers, strive to improve, and care for the people affected by the software we help build. </p> <p>We use a tool or process to the degree it furthers that end and no farther.</p> <div class="slashdigglicious"> <a href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/slashdot.org');" title="Slashdot It!"><img src="http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico" height="16" width="16" alt="[Slashdot]" /></a> <a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/digg.com');" title="Digg This Story"><img src="http://digg.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Digg]" /></a> <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/reddit.com');" title="Reddit"><img src="http://reddit.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Reddit]" /></a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=&amp;title=" title="Save to del.icio.us" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/del.icio.us'); window.open("http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&amp;noui&amp;jump=close&amp;url=&amp;title=', 'delicious', 'toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); return false;"><img src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="[del.icio.us]" /></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.facebook.com');" title="Share on Facebook"><img src="http://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Facebook]" /></a> <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');" title="Add to my Technorati Favorites"><img src="http://technorati.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Technorati]" /></a> <a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&amp;output=popup&amp;bkmk=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.google.com');" title="Save to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Google]" /></a> <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.stumbleupon.com');" title="Stumble it!"><img src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[StumbleUpon]" /></a> </div><p style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"><b>Originally published at <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/04/19/time-to-shift-focus-from-scrum-tools-and-process-to-practice/">Ken H. 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FNC Tea Parties an insult to British imperialism.

“Do you even remember what we did to you people!?”

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Fort Greene Park (DSCN1087.JPG)

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The funniest two minutes of television I’ve seen this year.

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The American Presidency Project lists the results of presidential popularity Gallup polls since 1941. Data compiled by Gerhard Peters.

Looking over the data, I was surprised in retrospect how consistent Clinton’s ratings were, how un-remarkable the changeover from Clinton to Bush was, the affect 9-11 had on Bush’s popularity compared to Pearl Harbor, and Bush and Obama’s near exact swap of approval and disapproval.

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<p><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/popularity.php " onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.presidency.ucsb.edu');"><img alt="" src="http://idisk.mac.com/kenjudy-Public/blogimages/presidential_popularity.png" title="Presidential Popularity adapted from the Gallup Poll and compiled by Gerhard Peters" class="alignnone" width="300" /></a><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/popularity.php" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.presidency.ucsb.edu');">The American Presidency Project</a> lists the results of presidential popularity <a href="http://www.gallup.com/tag/Presidential+Job+Approval.aspx" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.gallup.com');">Gallup polls</a> since 1941. Data compiled by Gerhard Peters.</p> <p>Looking over the data, I was surprised in retrospect how consistent Clinton&#8217;s ratings were, how un-remarkable the changeover from Clinton to Bush was, the affect 9-11 had on Bush&#8217;s popularity compared to Pearl Harbor, and Bush and Obama&#8217;s near exact swap of approval and disapproval.</p> <div class="slashdigglicious"> <a href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/slashdot.org');" title="Slashdot It!"><img src="http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico" height="16" width="16" alt="[Slashdot]" /></a> <a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/digg.com');" title="Digg This Story"><img src="http://digg.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Digg]" /></a> <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/reddit.com');" title="Reddit"><img src="http://reddit.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Reddit]" /></a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=&amp;title=" title="Save to del.icio.us" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/del.icio.us'); window.open("http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&amp;noui&amp;jump=close&amp;url=&amp;title=', 'delicious', 'toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); return false;"><img src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="[del.icio.us]" /></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.facebook.com');" title="Share on Facebook"><img src="http://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Facebook]" /></a> <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');" title="Add to my Technorati Favorites"><img src="http://technorati.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Technorati]" /></a> <a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&amp;output=popup&amp;bkmk=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.google.com');" title="Save to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Google]" /></a> <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.stumbleupon.com');" title="Stumble it!"><img src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[StumbleUpon]" /></a> </div><p style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"><b>Originally published at <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/04/11/presidential-popularity/">Ken H. Judy</a>. Please leave any <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/04/11/presidential-popularity/#comments">comments</a> there.</b></p>

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Ray Hood’s RCA/GE Building is the the tallest tower in Rockefeller Center.

Constructed in the depths of the depression the building derives beauty from a simple metaphor for the worker — carrying people efficiently and safely to a well-lit space.

“As each elevator shaft ended,” Hood explained in Architectural Forum, we cut the building back to maintain the same 27 feet from the core of the building to the exterior walls. By doing so we have eliminated every dark corner. — Great Fortune by Daniel Okrent

Hood’s design emerged from a set of constraints: the number of elevators required, the achievable height of an elevator shaft, and the distance one can sit from a window in New York and still receive natural light. The resulting setbacks thin the tower as it rises achieving elegance without ornament and lightness despite a massive stone facade.

What an achievement for a man who died at 53 while Rockefeller Center was still under construction.

But even the most expressive, inevitable metaphor loses coherence across implementers and over time. His fellow project architects crafted some blocky companion towers. Inside “30 Rock”, I’d bet seventy years of renovation have thrust some employees into the shadows.

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<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/helveticafanatic/2637683735/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.flickr.com');"><img alt="" src="http://idisk.mac.com/kenjudy-Public/blogimages/rockefeller_center_at_night.png" title="Rockefeller Center by helveticafanatic on flickr" class="alignnone" width="300" height="557" /></a>Ray Hood&#8217;s RCA/GE Building is the the tallest tower in Rockefeller Center.</p> <p>Constructed in the depths of the depression the building derives beauty from a simple metaphor for the worker &#8212; carrying people efficiently and safely to a well-lit space. </p> <blockquote><p>&#8220;As each elevator shaft ended,&#8221; Hood explained in <em>Architectural Forum</em>, we cut the building back to maintain the same 27 feet from the core of the building to the exterior walls. By doing so we have eliminated every dark corner. &#8212; <a href="http://www.shelfari.com/books/313238?widgetId=88506" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.shelfari.com');">Great Fortune</a> by Daniel Okrent</p></blockquote> <p>Hood&#8217;s design emerged from a set of constraints: the number of elevators required, the achievable height of an elevator shaft, and the distance one can sit from a window in New York and still receive natural light. The resulting setbacks thin the tower as it rises achieving elegance without ornament and lightness despite a massive stone facade. </p> <p>What an achievement for a man who died at 53 while Rockefeller Center was still under construction.</p> <p>But even the most expressive, inevitable metaphor loses coherence across implementers and over time. His fellow project architects crafted some blocky companion towers. Inside &#8220;30 Rock&#8221;, I&#8217;d bet seventy years of renovation have thrust some employees into the shadows.</p> <div class="slashdigglicious"> <a href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/slashdot.org');" title="Slashdot It!"><img src="http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico" height="16" width="16" alt="[Slashdot]" /></a> <a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/digg.com');" title="Digg This Story"><img src="http://digg.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Digg]" /></a> <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/reddit.com');" title="Reddit"><img src="http://reddit.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Reddit]" /></a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=&amp;title=" title="Save to del.icio.us" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/del.icio.us'); window.open("http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&amp;noui&amp;jump=close&amp;url=&amp;title=', 'delicious', 'toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); return false;"><img src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="[del.icio.us]" /></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.facebook.com');" title="Share on Facebook"><img src="http://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Facebook]" /></a> <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');" title="Add to my Technorati Favorites"><img src="http://technorati.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Technorati]" /></a> <a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&amp;output=popup&amp;bkmk=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.google.com');" title="Save to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Google]" /></a> <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.stumbleupon.com');" title="Stumble it!"><img src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[StumbleUpon]" /></a> </div><p style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"><b>Originally published at <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/04/05/constraints-metaphor-and-beauty/">Ken H. Judy</a>. Please leave any <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/04/05/constraints-metaphor-and-beauty/#comments">comments</a> there.</b></p>

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From Gothamist, “NYU Accidentally Makes Fools Out of 489 Prospectives

NYU sent an email to nearly 500 students this week that they should pack their bags and get ready to make their way over to Greenwich Village this fall as members of Wagner School’s next graduate class. An hour later, the school sent another email telling those same students to scratch that—they were actually rejected.

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<p><img alt="" src="http://idisk.mac.com/kenjudy-Public/blogimages/atsign.png" title="@" class="alignnone" width="200" height="200" />From Gothamist, &#8220;<a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/04/04/nyu_accidentally_makes_fools_out_of.php" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/gothamist.com');">NYU Accidentally Makes Fools Out of 489 Prospectives</a>&#8221;</p> <blockquote><p>NYU sent an email to nearly 500 students this week that they should pack their bags and get ready to make their way over to Greenwich Village this fall as members of Wagner School&#8217;s next graduate class. An hour later, the school sent another email telling those same students to scratch that—they were actually rejected.</p></blockquote> <div class="slashdigglicious"> <a href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/slashdot.org');" title="Slashdot It!"><img src="http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico" height="16" width="16" alt="[Slashdot]" /></a> <a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/digg.com');" title="Digg This Story"><img src="http://digg.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Digg]" /></a> <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/reddit.com');" title="Reddit"><img src="http://reddit.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Reddit]" /></a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=&amp;title=" title="Save to del.icio.us" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/del.icio.us'); window.open("http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&amp;noui&amp;jump=close&amp;url=&amp;title=', 'delicious', 'toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); return false;"><img src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="[del.icio.us]" /></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.facebook.com');" title="Share on Facebook"><img src="http://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Facebook]" /></a> <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');" title="Add to my Technorati Favorites"><img src="http://technorati.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Technorati]" /></a> <a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&amp;output=popup&amp;bkmk=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.google.com');" title="Save to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Google]" /></a> <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.stumbleupon.com');" title="Stumble it!"><img src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[StumbleUpon]" /></a> </div><p style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"><b>Originally published at <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/04/04/technological-fiasco-enablement/">Ken H. Judy</a>. Please leave any <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/04/04/technological-fiasco-enablement/#comments">comments</a> there.</b></p>

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From the Associated Press:

Binary WaveReports of Internet-based crime jumped 33 percent in 2008, according to a group that monitors web-based fraud.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center said in its annual report released Monday that it received more than 275,000 complaints last year, up from about 207,000 the year before.

The total reported dollar loss from such scams was $265 million, or about $25 million more than the year before.

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<p>From <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i3mtmNHwakuEI9RidgKkehE9LTQQD978H8FO0" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.google.com');">the Associated Press</a>:</p> <blockquote style="margin-right:0px;padding-right:0px;"><p><img alt="Binary Wave" src="http://idisk.mac.com/kenjudy-Public/blogimages/binarywave.jpg" title="Binary Wave" class="alignright" width="200" height="170" />Reports of Internet-based crime jumped 33 percent in 2008, according to a group that monitors web-based fraud.</p> <p>The Internet Crime Complaint Center said in its annual report released Monday that it received more than 275,000 complaints last year, up from about 207,000 the year before.</p> <p>The total reported dollar loss from such scams was $265 million, or about $25 million more than the year before.</p></blockquote> <div class="slashdigglicious"> <a href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/slashdot.org');" title="Slashdot It!"><img src="http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico" height="16" width="16" alt="[Slashdot]" /></a> <a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/digg.com');" title="Digg This Story"><img src="http://digg.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Digg]" /></a> <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/reddit.com');" title="Reddit"><img src="http://reddit.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Reddit]" /></a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=&amp;title=" title="Save to del.icio.us" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/del.icio.us'); window.open("http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&amp;noui&amp;jump=close&amp;url=&amp;title=', 'delicious', 'toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); return false;"><img src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="[del.icio.us]" /></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.facebook.com');" title="Share on Facebook"><img src="http://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Facebook]" /></a> <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');" title="Add to my Technorati Favorites"><img src="http://technorati.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Technorati]" /></a> <a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&amp;output=popup&amp;bkmk=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.google.com');" title="Save to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[Google]" /></a> <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&amp;title=" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.stumbleupon.com');" title="Stumble it!"><img src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="[StumbleUpon]" /></a> </div><p style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"><b>Originally published at <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/03/30/internet-crime-up-33/">Ken H. Judy</a>. Please leave any <a href="http://judykat.com/ken/2009/03/30/internet-crime-up-33/#comments">comments</a> there.</b></p>

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