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Yep, that's right, MySpace topped Yahoo in page views in November 2006 according to comScore Media Metrix (which admittedly, I hadn't heard of until this article, but I don't keep up with web ratings that much). Yahoo blames their second place finish on the adoption of Ajax, which reduced the number of page views on their site.

Concerned about folks trying to tease out your Amazon, eBay and other username and passwords via spoof e-mails? Then check out these web resources:

• Phish Tank: Report and track possible phishers via the web site or your browser.
• Anti-Phishing Working Group: Corporate alliance site for tracking and busting phishing attempts.
• OnlineGuard.gov: Security advice and news maintained by the U.S. government.

From CNN via AP:

"Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, taking down the school's network for more than two weeks, including some e-mail services and the college's Web site."

Or at least, a thumb drive. WOS Portable allows you to setup a working web server on a flash drive. The 200 mb installation includes Apache 2.2.0, MySQL 5.0.18, PHP 4.4.2/PHP 5.1.2.2 and PhpMyAdmin 2.8.0.3.

Lafayette Athletics is podcasting. It's a combination of audio and video podcasts, including Lafayette Sports Weekly, video from media luncheons, and much more. Updates appear to be posted each week -- I haven't downloaded any of the 'casts yet, but I will next week.

Want to blog, but just don't have the time? Let your Xbox blog for you. 360 Voice looks at your public Xbox 360 stats and then builds a narrative based on them, adding new blog entries for each day you play. Here's the 360 Voice blog for Major Nelson, of Microsoft's Xbox Team.

One of the criticisms of Soapbox that's been raised on more than one occasion is that no one knows about it. So my question for the Soapbox readers (and from the statistics we know there's quite a few more readers than posters) is how should we go about promoting Soapbox? Flyers on Facebook? Ads in The Lafayette? Posting signs around campus? Or something else entirely?

ID3 tags in MP3 files can sometimes run amok. MP3 ID3X is an MP3 editor for Mac OS X that helps you put things right by editing both the text and image tags within the file. The software is avialable as shareware those who register gain the ability to batch edit files.

If you maintain a Firefox extension (aka a Firefox toolbar) and need update it to be compatible with Firefox 2.0, check out this document on the Firefox Developers site. It's a fairly straightforward process (if you have a fairly straightforward toolbar -- all I had to do to update the Lafayette one was to up the Firefox version number to include the 2.0 incarnation).

Courtney and I have spent a fair amount of time talking about virtual worlds like Second Life on the Coffee Break. Now here's an example of one that that's spawning from the grounds of academia:

From CNET: On Thursday, the MacArthur Foundation is announcing a $240,000 grant to Edward Castronova for his online game, "Arden: The World of Shakespeare." The idea behind the project is to produce a virtual world steeped in the rich lore and characters of the playwright's work.

It's a two fold academic environment: on the public side, you have the ability to virtually explore Shakespeare's works. And on the backend, you have social scientistis experimenting with the economic and governmental rules of the different various incarnations of the world to see what results they get. Very cool stuff.