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A Series on Twitter Change: What Lies Beyond the New Algorithm? Discuss live THURS 4/7 10pmET at #mediachat
The new Twitter #algorithm is finally out. It's turned on by default, and you can turn it off. But should you? What does all this change mean for Twitter and for your personal user experience? What options do we have? Looking ahead, beyond the algorithm, are even more questions.
At its best, Twitter helps us connect ideas and connect people. The hard part is 'how?' What could make Twitter a better platform for social engagement?
I've been taking these "twitter change" issues on step-by-step:
Can @Jack save Twitter? (Dec 29)
Life in Glass Houses w/ IDEA Grid (Feb 13)
Algorithm & the Twitter Chat (Mar 30)
Now, the latest, which is this post:
Fixing Twitter: Beyond the Algorithm (Apr 7)
Let's discuss a Go Forward plan for Twitter. It's on the docket for THURS, 4/7/16, at 10pm ET using hashtag #mediachat. It's hosted by Aaron Kilby (@kilby76). I'll be guest that night, and will share some thoughts as we take on these important questions:
Q1. Twitter says its new algorithm exposes better, more relevant content; have you seen this in action?
Q2. How do you think Twitter determines (or should determine) relevance? Likes? Hashtags? Content search?
Q3. Will the algorithm help or hurt Twitter chats, and what indicators should we be monitoring?
Q4. What might "native chat support" from Twitter look like?
Q5. Beyond the algorithm, what other Twitter changes would you like to see?
Q6. What could make Twitter more social?
Q7. You're @Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO. What do you do next?
Lots for us to talk about. Hope to see you there!
Chris Jones aka @sourcepov
April 5, 2016 by Chris Jones	Categories: twitter	| Tags: #chat, change, engagement, evolution, jack dorsey, social media, trend, twitter | 1 Comment
Trouble in Social Media Paradise: Is Anybody Listening?
Who is on the receiving end, if anyone?
CHARLOTTE, NC. September 2013, by Chris Jones
One thing you can count on with Twitter: everyone on it has something to say. If we didn't, we wouldn't be there. But there may be trouble in paradise:
Social media consultants and PR folks: look around. Many early adopters have grown fatigued, and are increasingly absent. Take a deep breath, and ask the hard question: Is anybody listening?
To me, factoring in social media's rapid evolution, its not too soon for it to be having a mid-life crisis. Gartner, the industry think tank on technology trends, would call it the trough of disillusionment, a predictable window of second thoughts. Enterprise 2.0 advocate Andrew McAfee would be quick to point to technology adoption cycles that run 10 years or more. Even so, our collective excitement over social media's breakthrough in marketing and PR is increasingly ecclipsed by a vague realization that maybe we were wrong.
Does social media matter in the scheme of things?
Let's dig a little deeper.
Social media continues to post user gains on Twitter and new platforms like G+ and Instagram. Perhaps it's only natural that newcomers bring the same bias to their marketing communication that they had in traditional web and broadcast media. Key word there, of course, being broadcast. It is the bane of those who seek to engage, and it's a trend that's clear to see in a typical Twitter stream. Even Twitter chats aren't immune. You may find social interaction and friendly banter. But examine the content.
Do aphorisms outnumber personal perspectives?
And what do we know about our audience? Do we have one? Hopefully, we're speaking to a community, or at least a group of loosely connected but interested stakeholders. If not, our tweets are simply flying off into thought space (and arguably, outer space) undirected and ill-focused, in hopes that somebody, anybody, might notice.
It's time we take accountability for our messages. Ultimately, I think we're experiencing growing pains as we learn a new way to communicate. Here are a few things we can do to put the social back in social media:
Listen. It's harder than it sounds. Watch people and hashtags that matter to you, and get into their flow. What's being said today? Is it anything new that deserves a response?
Focus your energy, responding to ideas that resonate. Many in the stream seem intent on outwitting colleagues with ever more clever tweets. Are we competing to be heard? Or adding value? Take ownership for helping with noise control.
Tweet something that matters. Even if it means waiting.
Tweet with personal insight. That's what social media is about. Quotes and aphorisms can inspire, but that shouldn't be all we have to say.
Say "No" to broadcasting. Period. It's a very 20th-century approach. It's all TV and radio had to go on. Target your thinking, and be prepared to enage when someone responds.
Use hashtags for context and relevance. If you can't give your tweet a hashtag to associate it with a topic or audience, just maybe it's not of value to others. Sobering? Perhaps. Hashtags help you think about your focus, and they increase the chance your tweet will reach someone who needs to hear it .. beyond the limit of your current followers .. which extends the half-life of your message.
Props to Su Wilcox for her tweet at #smchat #socialchange this week that inspired this post, as she advised: "make it clear somebody is listening"
As it happened, I was.
Are a significant number unplugged from social media?
Twitter tells me I've tweeted over 27,000 times. I'm sure there are a few broadcast tweets in the mix. I'll own them. But I'll also challenge you to find them. There aren't very many.
To me the ability to connect and engage with like minded people is the magic of Twitter, and social media in general. When I turn to Twitter, I'm focused on making an impact in specific ways, with a specific audience in mind. I'm not hashtag OCD. I'm bent on making a difference.
The alternative to broadcast? I call it "social intention" – a force that transforms broadcasting into purposeful sharing. It's more than semantics. Two-way interaction is the core of social's paradigm shift.
So think about it. And I mean, this time, really reflect. Go deep. I'd love to know your thoughts.
And there's one more thing you can count on: I'm listening.
Chris aka @sourcepov
September 3, 2013 by Chris Jones	Categories: e20, social media, twitter	| Tags: #chat, communication, community, connection, context, e20, engagement, paradigm, social media, trend, twitter | 2 Comments
Keeping Up with the Flow: Why Feedly Changes the Game
CHARLOTTE, NC. March 2013, by Chris Jones
As you may know, I've been exploring the flow of insights across organizations for years. It's at the core of effective collaboration. As I've shared at conferences, blogs and now in softcover, more often than not, that critical flow of insight is blocked.
On the Web we have the opposite problem. Here we have the freedom to read and write any content we like. Insights can flow rapidly. But in terms of content like blog posts, it can be incredibly difficult to keep track of it all. The deluge of insight overflows the levies of our day to day attention spans.
There is too much content, and it never stops coming.
Haw River, NC – feedly in the flow (of insights)
Feedly changes the game because it recognizes the problem. It knows our time is limited. So it helps us move past the okay stuff so we can get to the good stuff. And if all the content is good? Feedly lets us quickly get to the next level, identifying the good stuff that's most relevant. To me, that's a game changer. Here are the Feedly features that made me sit up and take notice:
Rapid and seamless integration with Google Reader. Since I was already signed-in to chrome and G+, I simply had to tell Feedly to sync with Reader and it happened in a matter of minutes.
Rapid update of feeds. Quickly add or drop the content you want to receive. All you need is the blog URL.
While mobile, a "swipe" browses and/or marks posts as read. Beautifully mirroring the turn of a magazine page, we can scan headlines, drill down to read an article, or move on .. quickly.
Dynamic categories (for tracking relevance). This is where power surfing begins to leave paper magazines behind. With tools like Feedly we can bookmark and tag on the fly, helping us connect new ideas with our own, using categories to index what's important to us, even as what's important evolves.
Save for later. Let's us flag posts that need another read, a share on Twitter or G+, or a response.
Multiple-device sync. Feedly on the browser and mobile work together.
Valuable content: anytime, anywhere (aka, another "win" for mobility). Where once our idle moments (elevators, subways, concert lines) were venues for checking Facebook or our Twitter feed, now we can read deep and important content on the go as well, all of it real time.
In a world where everyone pushes content, it's time to focus on context, finding and adopting more powerful tools (like Feedly) for tracking what's important. Who decides what's important? Look in the mirror. With these tools in hand, it's easier to filter and to focus, connecting related ideas with our own, unlocking opportunties for more engagement which can ultimately lead to new thinking.
For anyone that takes learning and the learning organization seriously, that's a huge step forward. The critical feedback loop can now be closed.
Insights flow "like leaves on a river" – David Bohm
Organizations will continue to grapple with their collaborative barriers. Often they must settle for little more than a trickle of insight. Meantime, out in the open spaces, we're getting better at flood control.
Props to Mack Collier and crew for the Feedly tip at #blogchat.
So go ahead, blogosphere. Let the insights flow. Now, at long last, I'm ready for you.
March 31, 2013 by Chris Jones	Categories: collaboration, learning, social media	| Tags: collaboration, communication, evolution, feedly, innovation, knowledge, learning, organization, social media, twitter | 4 Comments
Collaborative Culture: Peter Senge on the Foundations of Organizational Learning
CHARLOTTE, NC. January 2011, by Chris Jones
On the road to unlocking collaboration, our culture series has taken us through a review of Schein's many layers, Handy's four structural models, and Kotter's eight steps for change – lots of ways to slice and dice the cultural barriers.
To me, it was important progress and worth the deep dive, tapping dozens upon dozens of insightful comments, for which I remain grateful.
Looking back, I'm increasingly convinced:
Cultures can, over time, be intentionally shaped and directed by visionary and resilient leaders. But the complexity of organizations, markets and other social ecosystems invariably worsens with scale, raising the bar for mitigation ever higher.
We need some breakthrough thinking. How can we foster collaboration and cultures that encourage it?
Where do we turn now?
Peter Senge, in his 1990 watershed work The Fifth Discipline (latest ed. 2006), laid an important foundation for Learning Organizations that still resonates today. As we look to frame the core dynamics of effective collaboration and the many challenges of the necessary culture change, I think we need to go back to the source.
While Senge advocated 5 critical disciplines for the modern organization, I struck gold on several foundational takeaways, each resonating with my views on collaborative innovation. Not all of them qualify as 'disciplines' as he defined them, but they all seem to have strong relevance to the challenges at hand.
Let's look at them:
the power of dialog to weave new insights on broader, divergent ways, in his words "open to the flow of a larger intelligence" and "taking us in directions we could never have imagined." (is it just me, or does that sound a lot like Twitter?)
exposing the vital role of context as the critical lens through which our ideas relate to the world, to each other, and to potential innovations
understanding our social ecosystems, with a nod to "systems thinking", exposing relationships across parts of the whole; this was an important stake in the ground for interdisciplinary thinking, concepts at the core of the collaborative model and Senge's view of organizational learning
recognizing that cultures can and must promote learning through deeper inquiry, encouraging us to challenge the rigor of our thinking; 'critical thinking' has lost focus in the commercial space and across western society, creating a fundamental problem in education priorities (but that's another stream!).
harnessing heuristics and paradigms to capture the mental power of abstraction, which he called "mental models;" these help us frame ideas, solutions, and (eco)system relationships in visual, more intuitive terms
importance of the study of nature's patterns, many holding secrets to how our world and our problems relate, with key messages for ecosystem sustainability and a means to understand complexity around us.
Senge looked to future organizations to master these challenges, becoming increasingly skilled at complex problem solving, and increasingly motivated to take on harder problems, adapting to handle more complex environments and challenges. Successful organizations, he hoped, would demonstrate resilience, and an expanding, repeatable capacity for learning.
Like many visionaries, Senge challenged future leaders to pick up the cause and drive these conceptual ideas into practice. Where are those leaders when we need them?
Some of them may be staring back at us in the mirror.
As we depart from Senge (with much to mull over!) let me direct your attention to the work of Marcia Conner, who has produced a series of books that lay out much of the work ahead in crafting a viable, sustainable learning organization.
Perhaps you've connected with her at #lrnchat, on Twitter?
Read up, and listen in.
Ultimately, we must promote cultures that value both learning and collaboration. That's where innovation and great ideas come from.
We're at a crossroads, of sorts, and here's why:
Talking around notions of collaborative cultures is easy, in the same way people banter about collaborative innovation. Small wonder there's such a buzz about it. But fostering cultures that spawn collaborative behaviors is hard work. I wonder: do we have the resolve to take it on?
Ahead: I'll provide more specifics on the mechanics of effective collaboration. The journey continues, and we're picking up the pace.
Here's some additional dialog just posted on Quora, based on this thread.
As always, I'd love to know your thoughts.
January 11, 2011 by Chris Jones	Categories: change, collaboration, complexity, culture, e20, ecosystem, organization, paradigm, social media, twitter	| Tags: #smchat, change, collaboration, context, culture, e20, ecosystem, education, innovation, learning, linkedin, organization, paradigm, Senge, twitter | 24 Comments
Barriers to Twitter Adoption: Unlocking a new Communication Paradigm
Some people believe, as I do, that Twitter has the power to fundamentally enhance our ability to communicate, accelerating access to both people and information. By most definitions that would make it a paradigm shift. Others, perhaps the majority, remain skeptical.
Let's dive a bit deeper, to see what we might learn.
Twitter simplifies communication, removing barriers of time and place. Without the overhead of email, conversations can spark around the globe. Every contact can be a source of inspiration, a new collaborator, a potential customer.
Where else can you message the world and get answers?
Many have seen the potential of Twitter and are running with it. From custom news feeds to social activism, from blog promotion to chats and book clubs, from corporate promotion to a new era of participative journalism. Access to people and information appears to be accelerating.
No issue, for the brave. On the surface, it seems easy, and it can be. If you're able to multitask across dozens of threads. If you have unlimited free time. If you know exactly what you're trying to accomplish during all your waking hours. Ambitious? More like impossible. Not enough caffeine in my latte for all of that. Control of the world's information feeds is NOT the goal. Our families like to see us from time to time, and there's this useful notion called 'sleep'.
Still, my instincts tell me we're leaving significant value on the table. The fundamental question for me remains:
What are the true barriers for adoption of the evolving Twitter and social media paradigms, and what can we do to unlock new levels of collaboration?
On WEDS 12/15 at 1pET, #SMCHAT will be joined by Laura Fitton, aka @Pistachio, CEO of oneforty.com and co-author of Twitter for Dummies. It's part of her sweep of Twitter Chat's for the TFD #BookTour. A true 'early adopter' herself w/ +70,000 followers, Laura has been at it longer than the rest of us. Let's ask her to join us in brainstorming our hardest open questions:
Q1. Engagement. New rules include need for authenticity, clarity of intent, agreed semantics, less broadcasting & more listening. What else?
Q2. Influence. CW says numbers don't matter, but marketers know eyeballs equal hits. What are dynamics of smart social network building?
Q3. Saturation. With so much info streaming in, Tweetdeck can barely keep up. Hashtags are imperfect. How do we manage the deluge of ideas & when is enough, enough?
Q4. Convergence. Apps & options keep proliferating, adding to the confusion. Should there be convergence to fewer tools, or is integration a better path?
Q5. Upside. Time for your crystal ball. Will twitter growth plateau, or will there be mass market adoption? What role does culture play?
The New Year is approaching. What better time reflect on the "State of the Social Network?" Let's use the 90 minutes with Laura to good advantage. They'll go fast.
Bring your questions and ideas, and join the conversation. It promises to be a good one. (click here at the appointed time)
Help me plan our time. Which of the topics above resonate the most for you? In which dimension(s) do the most significant barriers lie? Leave a comment, let's discuss it.
December 11, 2010 by Chris Jones	Categories: collaboration, social media, twitter	| Tags: #chat, #smchat, communication, context, culture, linkedin, paradigm, social media, trend, twitter, web20 | 17 Comments
Election 2010 and Social Media: What are impacts to campaigns, results, and the future of politics?
As election 2010 winds down at the polls, analysts on all the networks are scurrying to forecast results, identify trends, and discuss what it all means.
It's difficult not to speculate: is social media playing a role in 2010?
SM gained considerable attention in Obama's successful 2008 Presidential bid, in much the same way that television made a big splash in politics in 1960. Any communication channel that reaches the masses in new ways almost certainly has some impact, potentially even changing the rules. And the general consensus is that the impact extends beyond the U.S. to other corners of the globe.
With that said, what is the nature of the impact? Is it lasting, or a flash in pan?
On WEDS 11/3 at 1pET, #SMCHAT will explore these questions with some rigor, to get at the underlying dynamics. We will discuss the nature of SM impact to date and ask ourselves what may happen in the future.
By way of framing, here are the questions for our next live chat:
To what degree can campaigns expect to reach additional and/or undecided voters?
Can the younger demographics of Facebook drive material differences in election results?
Realistically, can voters be swayed by sites, blog posts or tweets?
Do non-profits share a politician's goals of fund-raising, community building and focused messaging? (looking for synergies, lessons learned)
As Government 2.0 and the Open Government initiatives move to reshape government collaboration and accountability, will there be a 'pull through' effect that drives more online, interactive campaign strategies?
Will voter engagement via SM be a long-term game changer for politics?
If you have opinions, insight or additional questions, please post that here, or on Twitter. You can join the live conversation using Tweetchat at the appointed hour.
As always, I'd love to know your thoughts and have the chance to discuss them.
Hope to see you at #SMCHAT.
November 2, 2010 by Chris Jones	Categories: gov20, social media, twitter	| Tags: #chat, #smchat, 2010, campaign, change, communication, election, gov20, social media, strategy, twitter | Leave a comment
The 2.0 Business Relationship: Are you investing in your network?
Social media is getting plenty of traction, but I'm still intrigued by its untapped potential, both inside the enterprise and out in open spaces.
Stubbornly, several barriers to adoption remain.
We've been chipping away at these hurdles here, first exploring culture in the organization, and then engagement. Those conversations have helped to surface yet another challenge: how to build valuable relationships (call them "virtual" if you must) using social media.
Let's tee it up this way:
What are the dynamics and limits of "relationship" in a virtual world, where connections are free, global, and easily made? Can true value be achieved? And can we navigate network overload?
We'll start with traditional business relationships, to set the stage.
Whether inside or outside of organizations, people are constantly meeting, connecting, and communicating. Results will vary. Some will pass each other by completely. Others will move closer together in their thinking and spark a collaboration, or they might hit a snag, and move further apart. It's all in motion.
A successful organization brings a master plan to the madness. Via work groups, partnerships and/or employment relationships, an enterprise uses structure to bind together groups of people with a shared focus. There's still that constant flux of relationships: people connecting, communicating, and learning. But if and when coordinated, good things happen, and the organization has a chance to thrive.
The impact of social media.
Our hyper-connected world accelerates and multiply's our ability to connect with people anywhere. Boundaries of time and place are removed. Whether tweeting or blogging, the potential to meet, share and learn from others – literally around the globe – is unbounded. But there's a catch. As you start to engage and connections start flooding in, you are soon forced to ask: Should this person be in my network? Should I reach out to them? Or will I be wasting my time?
Up front, there's really no way to know.
I think most people that exit social media, often in frustration, do so in face of those daunting, never ending decisions. And that's unfortunate. The possibility of each new social media connection creates a fascinating opportunity. Each connection you make brings the chance to challenge your thinking, expand your horizons, and even to change your path.
Navigating the challenges of network building
What factors will influence the chances of an online business relationship in the 2.0 space? I think it boils down to a couple of key things:
Clarity of your intent. Why are you here? Are you tapping social media and building your network for a reason? Get in touch with that. Share your intentions right up front.
Common ground (context). With intent on the table, establishing common ground is a matching exercise. Search engines and hashtags and communities are all ways to get connected. Believe it or not, this part is becoming easier by the day.
Investing in your network (learning to "time box"). Relationships tend to benefit from 'going deeper' but time is increasingly precious. This is where many connections with potential fall short. Set aside an evening, a cup of coffee, a few minutes a day for network building. Put a box around the time commitment. That "time box" can be small, medium or large. Change the time allocation as needed, but make a commitment, to yourself and your network, so they'll know what to expect.
Dare to adapt. Ultimately, you may find many connections don't align with your objectives, but don't be too quick to filter on that. You may find new opportunities or interests by being open minded and flexible.
Sure, building a network via social media can seem overwhelming. But as the virtual world unfolds around us, it's time to look deeper at its potential to spark new levels of collaboration. We need to think hard about what it will take to build value into our networks.
It's easier than ever to connect with people online in the 2.0 space.
But the ultimate value – for you and for your connections – is driven by a shared willingness to focus, to set aside a little quality time on a regular basis. Even if it's in small chunks. A tweet here. A blog comment there. One or two twitter chats. Okay, maybe three.
Are you willing to make an investment?
August 28, 2010 by Chris Jones	Categories: collaboration, e20, gov20, organization, social media, twitter	| Tags: #chat, collaboration, communication, culture, e20, innovation, learning, linkedin, organization, process, social media, twitter | 8 Comments
Pathways for change in the K12 Ecosystem
It's easy to toss aside the notion of meaningful social change. For starters, you'd have lots of company. But let's take a look at an area with mounting problems and the highest of stakes:
Un-packing the Challenges of K12 Education
By any measure, our western culture and economy – and within that universe, our education systems – have grown so large and intertwined that we quickly scoff at the notion of doing something to improve them. Countless well-intended efforts have failed. Or they succeed for a bit locally, but then can't scale. Frustrations mount. Those inside the hardened silos of our aging institutions are just as trapped by their realities as those on the outside.
It's not a lack of passion or desire. It's just that, as a society, we've become overwhelmed by 'the system'. It's been going on for a long time – by most accounts, over 100 years. Quite simply, it feels like we've lost control, and in some important ways, we have.
What if we changed the rules?
The problem with social, cultural and economic forces – the complex result of human interaction – is that the outcomes don't align with our intentions. Most of us were reared in a simple (linear, Newtonian) world of 'cause and effect', and we expect a simple answer to every problem.
Why can't we just fix schools? Or healthcare? Or the economy?
What we're learning is that complex systems – especially the human variety – work and behave very differently. We must focus on actors, motivators, outcomes and patterns.
We must attack these problems in a different way.
EcoSys is a social innovation group that started in August 2009. The goal of the group has been to apply a new science – the study of complexity in social ecosystems – to the hardened problems we face as a society.
Intriguing? Ambitious? Yes, on both counts. But open your mind for a moment.
Can you imagine the potential of global thought leaders discovering a focused problem-solving dialog, adding to it, and ultimately building a shared knowledge base of solutions?
Can you imagine an objective exchange of ideas and concerns, shared publicly in the spirit of collaboration, subordinating agendas and special interests in favor of meaningful, scalable innovations?
Can you see social media – Twitter, in fact – as an engine for change, with the connections of each contributor serving as pathways to deeper insight and focused action?
That work is underway, and we've posted some K12 progress here.
We've still got some work to do on it, as we continue to refine our issue framing.
Are you ready to Engage? Join us each MONDAY at 9pET using hashtag #ecosys. You can use TweetChat (try this link), TweetDeck, TweetGrid or HootSuite to join us. Just be sure the #ecosys hashtag is in each tweet, and search on that tag. Bring your insights and an open mind. It's free, unaffiliated, and destined to make a difference.
How do we know?
Because 3 years in and some +40,000 tweets later, our topics are gaining traction and spontaneous conversations are starting to break out. We call that momentum. And we're working to take a step to the next level.
Stay tuned. And welcome to the K12 ecosys.
Original framing blog
Full process
EcoDNA (our first emergent innovation)
EcoSYS founders
The DNA of Collaboration: Unlocking the Potential of 21st Century Teams (where Ecosys is a case study)
August 18, 2010 by Chris Jones	Categories: change, collaboration, complexity, culture, ecosystem, education, innovation, social media, twitter	| Tags: #chat, bureaucracy, change, collaboration, culture, economy, ecosystem, edu, education, innovation, open, paradigm, process, social media, twitter | 6 Comments
Social Media and the "Broadcast" problem, and why Engagement is long overdue.
CHARLOTTE. May 2010. For the commercial web's first decade, people communicated the old fashioned way: broadcasting their messages to anyone who would listen. It was a simple, easy extension of traditional advertising, public relations, politics and academic publishing. E-mail, also cutting edge at the time, modeled the same broadcast mentality. It was yet another easy way to lob messages to large audiences.
Prevalence of the "broadcast model" has limited people's view of how the internet can be used to deliver messages. Many still don't realize that the new internet offers a radically different proposition: collaborating with others via an open, multi-party exchange.
Engagement is communication at a different level
If communicating via email was passive and routine, the connections possible with engagement are active and dynamic. True engagement is more work. It requires time, energy and active listening. But the resulting flow of information brings rich rewards. Insights begin to accumulate and multiply. Ideas get validated and enhanced in several directions at once. And as the value of the idea exchange increases, personal relationships begin to form around them.
Meaningful, high-value connections like these are at the core of the Twitter chat phenomenon that's spawned successful, ongoing communities.
And yet engagement rates among the masses remain critically low. Try to talk about social media with the average person, and you can see the resistance in their eyes, as if to say, "I know better, I've heard that one before, you can't fool me."
That makes building social teams and virtual communities much harder.
Why so much resistance?
I find the old mindset serves as a filter to the possibilities, reinforced by a culture that has grown cynical and distrusting. Unfortunately, those old opinions die hard.
Thought leadership in this space goes back 50 years. Concepts like Thomas Kuhn's "paradigm" (1962), Charles Handy's "organizational culture" (1976), and Peter Senge's "mental models" (1990) all build on the theme of the filters we use when we perceive the world around us. It seems we've advanced our understanding, but have moved too little to act on what we've learned.
The idea of "getting outside the box" was clearly spawned from this line of thinking. Far too many remain safely inside those boxes.
Here's a key takeaway, unvarnished:
Mental filters (influenced by culture, formal education and our past life experiences) shape how we perceive the world around us, blinding us to new perspectives and blocking us from making deep connections with others.
Can we take this problem on, unlocking engagement in the virtual space? I say yes. Getting past our mental filters may be the first hurdle, but there are more. I've posted thoughts on the specifics of meaningful engagement over at Talent Culture.
There's a world full of complex problems out there. Embracing broad, meaningful collaborative engagement on a much larger scale is critical if we hope to solve them.
May 30, 2010 by Chris Jones	Categories: collaboration, culture, paradigm, twitter	| Tags: #chat, collaboration, communication, context, learning, linkedin, paradigm, social media, twitter, web20 | 14 Comments
The Problem with "Social" in Social Media (the case for 'New Media' and the semantics of 2.0)
The other day, I had an epiphany.
In one window, I'd been watching a series of tweets on how State CIO's put collaborative tools at the bottom of their 2010 technology priority list, even though their top 3 strategic goals included better management of labor costs, workforce optimization, sharing of work .. in a nutshell: productivity.
In another window, I'd watched die hard SMCHAT members bemoan the boss who wouldn't let them communicate via blogs, for fear they were wasting time. Forget the great ideas and potential innovations that were emerging.
Finally, the last straw: several high ranking execs were talking strategy, and one of them referred to the corporate adoption of SM, aka Enterprise 2.0 (#E20), as "Facebook behind the firewall."
That's when I snapped, so to speak.
From here out, I'm calling it facebook syndrome. You may know someone who has it too. It assumes social media is just about planning parties and swapping pictures, and it definitely doesn't help with management buy-in. In fact, there are two working definitions of social. One connotes entertainment, and another, the one we're talking about for Government 2.0 (#GOV20) and E2.0 and any serious commercial application is about building new work groups; facilitating new engagement for problem-solving; driving better partnerships; enabling culture change; and, quite literally, unlocking innovation.
Let's change the game. Let's rally around a new name .. like "new media" perhaps? .. for commercial applications. And to sell it, let's demonstrate a basis for measuring actual productivity gains, showcasing the people working closely together on shared problems that only recently had never met.
Watch people get excited about coming to work again.
It's not social media that we're chasing. It's the networked learning organization. To get beyond images of wedding crashers, the solution language needs to reflect the mission.
November 18, 2009 by Chris Jones	Categories: e20, gov20, km, social media	| Tags: #smchat, change, culture, e20, gov20, new media, social media, twitter | 10 Comments
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In a rebuilding season, it can be tough to find highlights. Luckily, baseball history is always lurking. Sometimes you just have to dig a little.
Despite the worst record in the American League prior to the All-Star break, there's no shortage of interesting tidbits regarding the 2017 White Sox:
Most consecutive road home runs (13) by a White Sox player to begin a season, passing Tom Paciorek's team record of 11 in 1982. It was the most in the Major Leagues since Donn Clendenon's 13 in 1966 (for Pirates). Abreu eventually ended his home homerless streak (dating back to 2016) at 41 games. He had a sneaky-good first half and eventually overtook Avisaíl García for the team lead in OPS (.871)
Last season, Anderson became the first White Sox player since Thad Bosley in 1978 to hit a leadoff HR for his first career home run.
This season, Anderson became the first White Sox player EVER to hit a leadoff HR for his first season HR in each of his first two Major League seasons.
Walkoff double on June 30th. 14 walkoff plate appearances (12 walkoff hits) is most in MLB from 2009-present.
Perhaps his most notable NON-walkoff hit of the season was his 9th inning one-out single on July 9th to spoil Kyle Freeland's no-hit bid.
Matt Davidson
Fifth rookie in White Sox history with at least 18 HR before the All-Star break, joining: Jose Abreu (29) in 2014, Ron Kittle (18) in 1983, Carlos May (18) in 1969 and Zeke Bonura (18) in 1934
Fun Fact: Davidson is still a rookie despite having made his MLB debut (8/11/2013) before Jose Abreu made his (3/31/2014)
Avisaíl García
First player in White Sox history with 2+ Triples, 5+ Home Runs & 20+ RBI in a season before May 1.
He also had 11 three-hit games in the first half…which matched his total from the previous two seasons combined
2017: 11 three-hit games (78 games played)
2015-16: 11 three-hit games (268 games played)
Sixth player in White Sox history with 3 HR through team's first four games of season, joining Zeke Bonura (1934), Bob Nieman (1955), Minnie Miñoso (1960), Robin Ventura (1994) & Alejandro De Aza (2014).
Unfortunately, since that third home run on April 8th, the Sox have have had a total of ONE home run by a catcher (Kevan Smith). And Soto, struggling with injury, hasn't played since May 7.
Tommy Kahnle
Kahnle has been the breakout bullpen star for the 2017 White Sox (honorable mention to Anthony Swarzak).
He also had the best K/BB ratio by a White Sox pitcher before the All-Star break (with a minimum of 50 strikeouts):
K/BB Player Year K BB
8.143 Tommy Kahnle 2017 57 7
7.571 David Robertson 2015 53 7
6.826 Chris Sale 2015 157 23
First player in White Sox history with 10 K and an RBI in a National League park (7/8/2017 at Colorado). He was the first Sox pitcher to do it at any park since Bart Johnson 9/17/1971. It could be a useful note for a National League team seeking starting pitching.
Stay tuned, Sox fans. And enjoy the second half.
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Forget a Yolmer Sanchez return to White Sox, he reportedly has deal with Giants
By Vinnie Duber January 28, 2020 3:20 PM
The dream many fans had of Yolmer Sanchez returning to the South Side for the 2020 season might be over.
According to reports, Sanchez has a minor league deal with the San Francisco Giants. Sanchez, who won an American League Gold Glove at second base last season with the White Sox, reportedly turned down a couple major league offers to compete for the everyday second baseman's job in San Francisco.
Free-agent 2B Yolmer Sánchez in agreement with #SFGiants on minor-league deal, source tells The Athletic. Turned down major-league offers for chance to be everyday starter at second base.
Source confirms INF Yolmer Sanchez has a minor-league deal with the Giants. Turned down two major-league deals so he could compete for SF's starting second-base job. @Ken_Rosenthal 1st.
— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) January 28, 2020
Sanchez was a fan favorite during his tenure with the White Sox, a positive clubhouse presence who earned a reputation as a fun-loving teammate through his various on-field antics, including repeated pranks involving the dugout's Gatorade bucket. He also proved himself to be one of the game's finest defensive infielders, a valuable skill even if his offensive production rarely lived up to the same standards. Last season, as the starting second baseman, Sanchez hit .252/.318/.321 with a pair of home runs and 43 RBIs.
Even after the White Sox non-tendered him earlier this offseason, team brass spoke positively of him, an indication that the door might not be closed on a reunion. But the White Sox infield is fast filling up with long-term pieces. Tim Anderson and Yoan Moncada had huge seasons on the left side in 2019, and Nick Madrigal, one of the top-rated prospects in baseball, is expected to reach the major leagues in the early portions of the 2020 season. Madrigal, the White Sox first-round draft pick in 2018, had an excellent offensive season in the minors last year and carries a similar defensive reputation as Sanchez. Whether Madrigal will make the Opening Day roster remains to be seen — it sounds unlikely — but he's expected to be the team's starting second baseman for the bulk of the 2020 campaign.
Given that crunch on the infield, Sanchez, even after his Gold Glove win, seemed destined for a reserve role had he returned to the South Side. Who knows if the White Sox were one of the teams that extended a major league contract offer to Sanchez, but there didn't seem to be room for him to have a starting job with this group. He can at least compete for such a role with the Giants.
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Looking for the ideal White Sox lineup for Opening Day 2020
By Vinnie Duber January 28, 2020 12:00 PM
You remember the Dr. Seuss book "If I Ran The Zoo," right?
Well, this is "If I Ran The Sox." It probably won't sell as many copies.
I want to make it clear from the outset that when we're talking about the White Sox lineup, only one guy gets to decide what it is, and his name is Rick Renteria. Of course, everyone has and will continue to have their own opinion on how the White Sox, now in win-now mode thanks to a busy offseason that appears to be baseball's most successful, should line up on a daily basis. I am not immune to this affliction. Nor is Dylan Cease.
Renteria hasn't given many clues as to how he'll write things out on Opening Day, going as far to say, when asked what his lineup will be last weekend during SoxFest, that he won't be sharing his lineups. But he did say that Luis Robert probably won't be leading off at first. Rick Hahn made it sound like the chances of Nick Madrigal making the Opening Day roster aren't great. You'll notice below that I have Robert leading off and Madrigal as the starting second baseman. Again, this isn't a prediction, it's merely what I would do if for some laughable and unthinkable reason I ended up in the manager's chair.
So, without further ado, your March 26 starters against the Kansas City Royals in the alternate universe I have just created by removing one of the Infinity Stones and failing to return it.
1. Luis Robert, CF
Robert will likely not be leading off on Opening Day. Renteria said as much last week when asked about leadoff hitters, a discussion topic that is not only overplayed but overplayed exclusively surrounding winning teams. So I guess Renteria should take it as a good sign for the state of his team that he's already being pestered about it in January.
"I still think that Luis — as you guys knew, a few years ago, I would put guys at the top of the order and give them as many at-bats as possible, continue to get them as much involved as possible. Right now, I'm not forced to do something like that, necessarily.
"So if you're thinking about me leading off Luis at this particular time — even though in the minor leagues he's shown an on-base quality — he might not be at the top. But will he see some at-bats at the top of the order at spring training? Yeah, it's possible."
That doesn't mean Robert won't eventually be the White Sox everyday leadoff man, it just sounds like he won't be that to start the season.
But that's where I'd put him.
Robert getting his first taste of the major leagues and struggling would not be wildly surprising. We saw the same thing happen with both Yoan Moncada and Eloy Jimenez. But Robert has been hailed as potentially the best of the entire bunch of White Sox youngsters, a true five-tool threat who can do everything on a baseball field. That includes get on base, which he did at a .376 clip last season in the minor leagues. He also has some blazing speed, stealing 36 bases in 2019.
Robert can do the things a stereotypical leadoff hitter can do without being a stereotypical leadoff hitter. He's not just going to single and steal second and wait for the guys behind him to drive him in. He had 74 extra-base hits last season. So maybe sometimes he'll leadoff by getting to first base, and sometimes he'll leadoff with a moonshot into the bleachers.
Either works. I'd rather have the guy who can do it all getting as many at-bats as possible at the top of the order.
2. Tim Anderson, SS
Anderson's going to have a challenge ahead of him replicating the numbers he put up in 2019. But until there's a reason not to keep Anderson near the top of the order, that's where he belongs.
Are there red flags showing maybe the No. 2 spot isn't the best place for Anderson? Sure. He hardly ever walks, doing so just 15 times — fewer walks than Madrigal had strikeouts! — in 518 trips to the plate last season. And his baseball-leading .335 batting average — a .095 point jump from the .240 average he had a year prior — was helped by a wildly high .399 BABIP (batting average on balls in play, or batting average in all the at-bats that weren't strikeouts or home runs; the higher it is, the luckier a hitter got, the harder it is to maintain over the course of multiple seasons).
But as of this minute, Anderson's most recent season's worth of production includes a .335 average and a .357 on-base percentage. I don't know if that production is going to dip, and if it does how significantly, but I know that until it does, why not allow Anderson to keep hitting and getting on base ahead of the big boppers in the middle of the order?
The most realistic spot for Anderson on Opening Day? Maybe the leadoff spot.
"I want to see Timmy there," Renteria said when discussing his leadoff options going into spring training before mentioning another name or two.
3. Yoan Moncada, 3B
Moncada, too, had the help of a ridiculously high BABIP, his all the way at .406 during his breakout 2019 campaign. However, he also showed that he might just be this team's best all-around hitter, combining average, on-base skills and power for a .315/.367/.548 slash line.
The No. 3 spot has traditionally been occupied by a team's best hitter, and though Moncada's 25 home runs in 2019 weren't as many as the totals cranked out by Jose Abreu, Eloy Jimenez, Edwin Encarnacion or Yasmani Grandal, Moncada only played in 132 games and is still developing. That sweet swing of his should produce even more pop as time moves along. In 2019, he got the strikeouts way down, even though the walks fell with them, but that .548 slugging percentage would like mighty nice in the No. 3 spot.
4. Jose Abreu, 1B
Abreu batted exclusively in the No. 3 spot in the lineup in 2019. And 2018. He hasn't hit cleanup since 2017, when he did it in 22 games. But in the last few seasons, there haven't been any obvious challengers to Abreu's status as the team's best hitter. Abreu will happily take some threats to that title now, with his locker buddies Moncada and Jimenez finally joining him in giving these White Sox some middle-of-the-order presence.
Abreu gets tons of credit, all of it deserved, for his off-the-field role as a mentor to guys like Moncada and Jimenez. Robert is sure to find his way under Abreu's wing this season, too. But don't think the attention paid to Abreu's off-the-field value equals a diminished impact on the field. He had one of the most productive seasons of his six-year big league career in 2019, especially from a power perspective: he led the American league with a career-best 123 RBIs, hit 33 homers to come three shy of his career-best total in that category, posted a .503 slugging percentage that ranked as the third best of his career and hit 38 doubles, the second most of his career and just five away from his career high.
In other words, driving in runs is still Abreu's forte. With Robert, Anderson and Moncada ahead of him, he ought to have plenty of opportunities to do just that in 2020, making the cleanup spot the perfect place for him.
Don't be surprised, though, if Renteria keeps Abreu comfortable and leaves him in the No. 3 spot he's been in for the majority of his major league career.
5. Eloy Jimenez, LF
White Sox brass keeps talking about Jimenez as just scratching the surface of what he can do in the big leagues. If hitting 31 homers as a rookie is just scratching the surface, then look out.
But indeed, Jimenez will be expected to leave some of the growing pains he experienced during his rookie season behind him in 2020 while still showing off that impressive power stroke. This is the same guy who hit .337 and put up a .384 on-base percentage as a minor leaguer in 2018, and the offensive skills that led to those numbers are expected to shine through at the big league level, too.
What Jimenez did in the final month of the 2019 season could serve as a hint of what's coming in 2020: He slashed .340/.383/.710 with nine home runs, eight doubles, 25 RBIs and 19 runs scored.
A guy who fans are hoping tops 40 home runs in his sophomore season provides perfect protection in the lineup for Abreu and fits quite nicely into the No. 5 spot.
6. Edwin Encarnacion, DH
The White Sox imported some thump this winter in the 37-year-old Encarnacion, hoping to reap similar rewards from an aging slugger that the division-rival Minnesota Twins got from Nelson Cruz in 2019. Encarnacion probably won't be expected to lead the highest single-season home run total in baseball history, like Cruz did, but seeing him lead the South Siders in home runs would not be a shock. He hit at least 32 homers in each of the last eight seasons, and his 34 dingers a year ago would have led the White Sox (who got a team-high 33 homers from Abreu). Those 34 long balls came in just 109 games for Encarnacion. He'll be expected to appear in significantly more than that as the White Sox primary designated hitter.
A stereotypical middle-of-the-order bat, it only makes sense to keep Encarnacion in the middle of this order, where he can crush home runs and rack up RBIs.
7. Yasmani Grandal, C
My least favorite part about this lineup I've constructed is that the best position player the White Sox added this winter is batting seventh. But Grandal knows what it's like to be in a loaded lineup from his days with the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2018, when he was part of the NL pennant-winning Dodgers, he spent at least 15 games in seven different spots in the batting order, logging no more than 24 in any one spot.
He'd be a valuable bat in any spot in the White Sox order, too, bringing in some career-best numbers from his 2019 campaign with the Milwaukee Brewers, including 28 home runs, 77 RBIs, 109 walks, a .380 on-base percentage and a .848 OPS. When you've got a good lineup, you can extend your run production down to the No. 7 spot, and that's what would happen here with Grandal.
Because of Grandal's on-base skills and in-lineup versatility, it wouldn't surprise to see him just about everywhere over the course of the 2020 campaign. Heck, that ability to walk would even make him a valuable leadoff man, considering it's a skill that isn't exactly prevalent elsewhere on the roster.
8. Nomar Mazara, RF
That once imagined platoon for Mazara is looking less and less likely as spring training approaches, with the 24-year-old looking destined for everyday status, at least out of the gate. Yes, Mazara has a career .231/.272/.361 slash line against left-handed pitchers. But Renteria argued last week that sitting Mazara against lefties is no way to make those numbers better.
"He's been in the big leagues for four years already. He's hit 20-plus homers a year. And I was sharing this with somebody the other day, I don't think he's even close to reaching his potential," he said. "I believe that the staff that we have will be able to get out of him more. He won't be just the guy that you say, 'He's great against righties and horrible against lefties.'
"When you take away this opportunity to face lefties, he's not going to develop that skill set or that confidence in order to do that."
Just like sticking a productive bat like Grandal's in the No. 7 spot, putting a guy who's averaged 20 homers in his four major league seasons in the No. 8 spot ain't too shabby, either. And if what the White Sox believe could happen happens, if Mazara reaches that potential that was sky high when he was a heralded prospect a few years back, then we won't be talking about him in the No. 8 spot much longer.
9. Nick Madrigal, 2B
Madrigal likely won't be on the Opening Day roster. He played just 29 games at Triple-A Charlotte last season, and Hahn's comments last week illustrated that the White Sox would like to see some more from Madrigal at that level.
"He's got a few more things to prove," Hahn said. "I think that when we go through trying to be as objective as possible thinking about where he is developmentally, he hasn't necessarily answered all the questions we have for him at the minor leagues.
"But we're going to go in with fresh eyes and a fresh approach in spring training and see where he's at and in all probability make an assessment there.
"I don't think we have him, by any means, written in pen as the Opening Day second baseman at this point, if that's what you mean. But could he change our minds? Yeah."
Well, that's somewhat good news for Madrigal, who keeps saying he's very much ready for the challenge of the big leagues. Certainly he did some great things against minor league pitching in 2019, playing at three different levels and striking out an insane 16 times in 532 plate appearances. His bat-to-ball skills have proven to be elite, as described, and he continues to receive rave reviews for his defense.
Given all that, it's no stretch to suggest he's the best second baseman in the White Sox organization, even if Leury Garcia is the better bet to be the Opening Day starter at second. The White Sox have exhibited patience that has sometimes maddened fans when it comes to their prospects, and they shouldn't be expected to treat Madrigal any different. But the situation has shifted on the South Side, with the White Sox suddenly facing realistic playoff expectations. If winning as many games as possible is the goal, wouldn't Madrigal help them do that?
We'll see if that has any bearing on the team's decision come spring training, or if Madrigal blows the doors off the Cactus League and really forces the issue.
Regardless of when Madrigal arrives, be it Opening Day or some time after, the No. 9 spot seems logical, not because he'd be the team's worst hitter — far from it — but because he has the skills to make him one of those "second leadoff hitter" types, someone who reaches base enough to treat the No. 9 spot as a kind of second No. 1 spot to set the table even further in anticipation of the lineup turning over.
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Israel detains Aljazeera bureau chief Walid al-Umari
Walid al-Umari, the Arab satellite channel's bureau chief in the Palestinian Territories, was arrested Monday by Israeli policemen, the pan-Arab television station reported.
Al-Umari has been arrested twice in the past 24 hours by Israeli police. His identification papers were also confiscated.
Al-Umari and his crew were reporting on current developments in the Lebanon-Israeli crisis from the village of Kofor Yasif village near the northern Israeli city of Akka on the Mediterranean coast at the time of his latest arrest. Al-Umari was taken to a police station while the rest of the crew was told to stay in their cars.
Aljazeera is currently working with the Israeli police through Aljazeerae's legal adviser to secure his release.
Al-Umari was also detained by Israeli police on Sunday night for two hours after broadcasting from Haifa.
Israeli police briefly held another Aljazeera's correspondent, Elias Karam, near Haifa in northern Israel Sunday morning. Haifa has been repeatedly hit by Hezbollah's rockets.
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Apple Maps Had Been Directing People Searching For Abortion Clinics To Adoption Centers Since 2011
Sarah Buhr @sarahbuhr / 7 years
Recent improvements by Apple in Siri and Apple Maps have corrected an ongoing issue where the products had been directing people to adoption centers when they asked for an abortion clinic.
Though the company has known that this was a problem since at least 2011, it said at the time that this was a "glitch" and promised Siri would get better.
But not much changed in five years.
UCSF researcher Alexis Hoffman tested search results over the past few months across the country and found Siri redirected people to adoption centers in a number of urban areas. Hoffman contacted Apple about it but heard nothing back.
Lauren Himiak, an exec with the nonprofit Sea Change Program, which seeks to remove the stigma around abortion, contacted Apple's Tim Cook about the issue in November 2015 and ran into the same wall.
She says she then contacted a number of other Apple people, the PR team and anyone she could find to bring attention to this issue. She also shared with us her search results.
"We came into this because it creates a stigma. To have that [search result] in your face is inexcusable." Himiak told TechCrunch. "We have women all over the country being bullied and shamed and to be redirected to an adoption center instead disregards women's choices."
Earlier this month Fast Company did a test search for "abortion" on Apple Maps and asked Siri "where can I find an abortion." Both searches surfaced an adoption center 30 miles out of the city and zero abortion clinics.
However, it looks like search has become more relevant for those interested in finding a place to get an abortion in the last few days. I did my own search on both Siri and Apple Maps today and found it did not direct me to an adoption center. Instead, it pulled up a bunch of locations for Planned Parenthood in SF.
Apple told TechCrunch that it had been working on updating search results over time.
"With iOS 9, typed search queries deliver more relevant results from more categories," Apple said.
The statement would indicate that this was not due to media attention, like the recent FastCompany article. iOS 9 introduced Apple's Nearby feature, which provides automated, proximity-based search results. Nearby pulls up those results within categories – one of them being a family services category.
Many of the Planned Parenthood locations could have been mis-categorized at the time Nearby was introduced. That's likely one of the reasons Planned Parenthood and a number of other locations across other categories, like convenience services, pharmacies, cafes, and others, are now displaying more accurate results for iPhone users.
Himiak calls the timing "suspect" and says she'll be keeping an eye on those searches in the future.
Article updated to clarify that the Maps results are no longer directing users searching for abortion to adoption clinics.


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Popular printer models manufactured by Dell, Brother, Konica, Samsung, HP, and Lexmark are affected by security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers to steal passwords, steal information from the print jobs, and shut down the devices.
The discovery was made by researchers at the University Alliance Ruhr who published a series of advisories and a wiki regarding their research.
20 printer models are affected by flaws related to common printing languages, PostScript and PJL, used in most laser printers. The flaws are not a novelty, according to the experts they have existed for decades.
"In the scope of academic research on printer security, various vulnerabilities in network printers and MFPs have been discovered." reads the advisory 2 of 6 of the `Hacking Printers' series. "This post is about accessing a printers file system through ordinary PostScript or PJL based print jobs — since decades a documented feature of both languages. The attack can be performed by anyone who can print, for example through USB or network. It can even be carried out by a malicious website, using advanced cross-site printing techniques in combination with a novel technique we call `CORS spoofing' (see http://hacking-printers.net/wiki/index.php/Cross-site_printing)"
The researchers published a Python based proof of concept application entitled Printer Exploitation Toolkit (PRET) that could be used to simplify PostScript and PJL based file system access on printers.
The tool connects to a printer via network or USB and exploits could be used to exploit the security flaw discovered by the researchers in the printer's PostScript or PJL language. "This (tool) allows stuff like capturing or manipulating print jobs, accessing the printer's file system and memory or even causing physical damage to the device,"
"This (tool) allows stuff like capturing or manipulating print jobs, accessing the printer's file system and memory or even causing physical damage to the device," states a PRET description published on GitHub.
The researchers published six distinct advisories reporting multiple issues, including buffer overflow, password disclosure, and print job captures vulnerabilities.
Among the attacks, there is a technique that could allow attackers to access a printer's file system. The method exploits the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) mechanism that allows a third-party domain to read web page data such as fonts when printing.
The combination of the CORS spoofing and Cross-Site Printing (XPS) can be exploited by attackers to access a printer via a web-based attack using "a hidden Iframe to send HTTP POST requests to port 9100/tcp of a printer within the victim's internal network."
"Cross-site printing (XSP) attacks empower a web attacker to access the printer device as demonstrated by who use a hidden Iframe to send HTTP POST requests to port 9100/tcp of a printer within the victim's internal network. The HTTP header is either printed as plain text or discarded based on the printer's settings. The POST data however can contain arbitrary print jobs like PostScript or PJL commands to be interpreted." reads the Wiki.
According to the researchers, it is possible to send data back to the browser from the printer by manipulating the PostScript output commands.
"By using PostScript output commands we can simply emulate an HTTP server running on port 9100/tcp and define our own HTTP header to be responded – including arbitrary CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin fields which instruct the web browser to allow JavaScript access to this resource and therefore punch a hole into the same-origin policy." continues the Wiki.
The experts reported the issued to all the vendors.
Cross Site Printing Reviewed by AsiTE on Wednesday, February 01, 2017 Rating: 5
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Showtime's new Cameron Crowe comedy series Roadies kicks off this summer.
The premium cable network confirms that Roadies will premiere Sunday, June 26 at 10/9c.
The show–Crowe's first TV series–chronicles a life on the road during a rock group's tour, as seen via the world of backstage workers. Per Showtime, Roadies "gives an insider's look at the reckless, romantic, funny and often poignant lives of a committed group of 'roadies' who live for music and the de facto family they've formed along the way. The series chronicles the rock world through the eyes of music's unsung heroes and pays homage to the backstage workers who put the show on the road while touring the United States for the successful arena-level group, The Staton-House Band."
Luke Wilson, Carla Gugino, Imogen Poots, Rafe Spall, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Peter Cambor, Colson Baker (a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly) and Ron White star, while Luis Guzman, Jacqueline Byers, Finesse Mitchell, Branscombe Richmond and Tanc Sade guest star.
Roadies also comes from writer/executive producer Winnie Holzman (My So-Called Life, Wicked), along with J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and Len Goldstein. Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis is a producer and music supervisor.


Yet, from a development perspective, XML is still hard to work with.
If you ask the average software developer to work in XML you will likely hear a heavy sigh.
The option set, the update operation will be ignored and the callback executed without sending the command to Mongo DB so as to prevent accidently overwritting documents in the collection.
BSON_BINARY_SUBTYPE_USER_DEFINED doc.buffer.subtype(bson. BSON_BINARY_SUBTYPE_UUID); var bson = require('bson') bson. // this executes the same command as the previous example.
LINQ to XML is a modernized in-memory XML programming API designed to take advantage of the latest . It provides both DOM and XQuery/XPath like functionality in a consistent programming experience across the different LINQ-enabled data access technologies.
There are two major perspectives for thinking about and understanding LINQ to XML.
You can do so by defining a getter in the following way: Setters allow you to transform the data before it gets to the raw mongodb document and is set as a value on an actual key.
Suppose you are implementing user registration for a website.


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namespace QuickFAST{
  namespace Examples{
    class ConsoleLock
    {
    public:
      static boost::mutex consoleMutex;
    };
  }
}
#endif // CONSOLELOCK_H

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