InfoMusing

New ‘Cap & Trade’ Law Spells Work for IT

Are you deciding where to build a new data center, or how many new cooling units to add to it? If so, you have typical IT decision-making ahead — weighing all the costs and benefits, considering corporate goals, making recommendations, and so forth.

However, pending legislation on Capitol Hill called the Waxman-Markey bill could add something else to your decision making: scrutiny of the “caps” on carbon emissions and the market to “trade” carbon allowances.

Check out the whole article at Internet Evolution

There are plugins and GREAT WordPress Plugins

One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the code as light and fast as possible but to provide a rich framework for developers to add to the product. This concept is a key reason for the huge and constantly growing universe of WordPress plugins. In talking to WordPress users I’ve discovered that almost universally folks are pleased with the plugins they use. However, there are plugins that work and then there are plugins that go the extra mile.

I started thinking about this because I’ve started making a couple of bucks from blogging and I decided that it was high time I paid back those who helped me get up and running in the blogging world. So I took a bit of a critical look at the plugins I am using and asked myself – what’s the difference between the various plugins I am using?

Check out the full post at Blogging Tips

Limits on Employee Social Networking?

Many companies are still deciding whether they need to have a social media presence like a Facebook page, or a Twitter account, or a YouTube channel. But every business needs to realize that, regardless of whether the company is using social media, their employees are already using them, both personally and professionally.

What’s more, the potential repercussions of those employee activities are evolving on a daily basis, while most companies are sitting on personnel policies that are outdated, if they even exist.

Check out the full article at Internet Evolution

Social Protection: The Best Ways to Safeguard Personal Data

Social media sites are fun, but when you participate, you run the risk of sharing more about yourself than you should. The good news is that close to 99.9 percent of social network privacy issues are under your control.

This article provides a few tricks I’ve discovered to keep information private on some of the more popular social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, FriendFeed and Twitter. Hopefully, these steps will give you ideas to use on other sites not listed.

Check out these tips and the full article at Internet Evolution.

Google Latitude and Your Blog

Google just launched the Google Public Location Badge which allows you to put a Google Map on your blog (or any website) that highlights where you are at any given time. Well, to be more precise it announces where you phone is.  So on those days when you forget to bring the phone with you – obviously the data is a bit less accurate.  Technology aside, the bigger question is “Why would you need your location to be broadcast to the world on your blog?”

Check out the full story at Blogging Tips.