The Kenzers Family Blog

If you’re reading this (or subscribed to my feed) and you’re not a close friend or family member, you should check out http://www.radicalbehavior.com/ (feed). I’ve decided to use this blog just to post about the family. Radical Behavior will be focused on technology, psychology, and all around cool stuff.

This is kind of cool. Digg.com turned two years old today. I hadn’t realized it, but I created my profile on Digg the day it started: December 7th, 2004. I did it right after Kevin Rose mentioned it on an episode of The Screen Savers on TechTV. This means I am the 4th longest active digger. Don’t believe me, check out Owen Byrne’s (Digg’s lead developer) post. On a side note, I hadn’t realized that Digg had switched from Blogger to Wordpress for their blogging software, but then again, doesn’t everyone go through that?

First the blog, then the podcast (which is on a little hiatus) and now a viral video on YouTube.

Of course she does have a technology background with companies like Apple.

I just want to highlight a post I read over at rebellin.net. Lynnette, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the years, was sitting by her computer when she started seeing emails saying her eBay and Gmail passwords have successfully been changed. Since she didn’t change them, she rightfully started to freak out and picked up the phone. She was immediately able to get a hold of eBay (and PayPal I presume) to get the situation fixed. However, calls to Google to correct the Gmail password went unanswered - apparently they don’t provide any phone customer support. She has since submitted 5 contact forms to Google with no response.

Gmail tells its users not to delete email. They have enough storage space and such fantastic search capabilities, that they don’t see the point. Now, Lynnette has over two years of undeleted emails being pilfered by some hacker. Many sites email you passwords when you forget them, and I know - since I use Gmail - that I don’t always delete these. This hacker now has access to all kinds of Lynnette’s information. Google: You have to treat this with the same seriousness as a credit card fraud case would be!

Just a tip - and I’m not insinuating that Lynnette didn’t do this - but change your passwords frequently. Its easy to get into a rhythm of using the same password over and over but you need to change it with all systems as frequently as you can muster.

They guys from Revision3 are launching a new TV station that will be available through many channels but probably not over traditional TV. Here is a quote from Wired

The aim of Revision3 is to improve upon the traditional cable television model by delivering original programming to not just the television (via set-top boxes), but all platforms, including desktop PCs and mobile devices.

A few of us at Twelve Horses were invited to the unveiling tonight in San Francisco. Dave and I actually had planned to go but work got in the way. You may remember that Twelve Horses brought a live taping of Diggnation to the Silver Legacy. Good luck tonight guys and we look forward to Digg Reno 2.0.

Robert Payne is Twelve Horses Marketing Manager.  After contributing to the Twelve Horses Blog for quite some time, Robert has finally got his own personal blog up and running.  Congrats Robert.  Also, I wanted to point out a post Robert just did on blog trackbacks.  If you are unfamiliar with trackbacks, check it out.  If you know what a trackback is, give him some feedback.

I did a quick write up on tracking blog readers on the Twelve Horses Blog.  Not sure if it is of interest to anyone here but let me know your thoughts.