http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/ This is a historical site. New entries are at blogs.adobe.com/jd. Comments are closed on these old entries. en Copyright 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:00:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I'm on the final leg of a three-week vacation/study in Taiwan. (Which, by the way, is a wonderful and underappreciated place, and which I believe would well repay your attention. But that's another post. ;-) Anyway, I've been out of the loop, and have not been in direct contact with... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/10/on_clickjacking_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/10/on_clickjacking_1.html Privacy/Security Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:00:44 -0800 I'm on the final leg of a three-week vacation/study in Taiwan. (Which, by the way, is a wonderful and underappreciated place, and which I believe would well repay your attention. But that's another post. ;-) Anyway, I've been out of the loop, and have not been in direct contact with... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/10/on_clickjacking.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/10/on_clickjacking.html Privacy/Security Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:58:48 -0800 I'm in Taipei Taiwan now, on holiday, and am caught in the middle of Super Typhoon Jangmi, running smack dab across the center of the island today. I'm safe -- other people bear the brunt of the danger -- but I'll be stuck in a hotel room looking out across... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/09/live-blogging_s.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/09/live-blogging_s.html Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:39:50 -0800 Today I stood six inches from a book, which was printed just before Columbus was born. I couldn't tear myself away. They used a woodblock to print it -- carve the words into a block of wood once, then roll ink and press paper onto it many times. One publishing... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/09/pre-pinta_print.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/09/pre-pinta_print.html Adobe Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:04:52 -0800 Newspapers have made much of corporate Twitter accounts such as Jetblue and ComcastCares. Today there's news that someone apparently squatted the ExxonMobilCorp name, and passed themselves off as a nameless corporate drone. That's novel: impersonation of a support/service representative. I picked the news off Techmeme and haven't confirmed the details,... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/08/why_youve_got_t.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/08/why_youve_got_t.html Blogging Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:22:30 -0800 Flash Lite talks with J2ME: There were articles earlier today about Sony's Project Capuchin, but now Sony has info on their website. It seems like Sony phones will have an API so that a local Java engine can communicate with the local Flash Lite engine. They cite three use cases:... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/flash_lite_talk.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/flash_lite_talk.html Devices Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:43:02 -0800 Noteworthy injection: User-generated content is great, but you can't trust it, and must vet it before republishing it. This weekend the Barack Obama website accepted a comment from a visitor but did not strip out angle-brackets and quotemarks. The result was a page whose new user-generated JavaScript content redirected to... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/noteworthy_inje.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/noteworthy_inje.html Privacy/Security Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:41:59 -0800 AMP, geo-restrictions: Link goes to a machine-translation of a German PC-Welt article, about how some television shows (such as the CBS "CSI" property) can no longer be viewed in all regions via Adobe Media Player. The viewing policy is set by the content provider (such as CBS) rather than by... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/amp_geo-restric.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/amp_geo-restric.html Television Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:58:34 -0800 Label debates: I don't usually link to Sys-Con, or to Scott Barnes, but this collection of paragraphs asserting that "'RIA' is slowly fading in terms of its definition" is a piece of almost offensively obtuse obscurantism. Rich Internet Applications combine serverside-processing (think Allaire) and clientside-processing (think Macromedia) for something richer... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/label_debates.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/label_debates.html Web sociology Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:15:59 -0800 Creative accessibility: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." [A.J.Liebling] Twenty years ago desktop publishing reduced the cost to tens of thousands of dollars. A decade later web publishing helped more people publish and distribute text and images, costing only a computer, its software, and... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/creative_access.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/creative_access.html Adobe Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:36:29 -0800 Adobe to acquire Macromedia: Announcement went out three years ago today. Seems longer. Why, back then we didn't even have YouTube... things have changed a lot since then.... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/adobe_to_acquir.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/adobe_to_acquir.html Adobe Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:12:08 -0800 Bad Reporter, No AdSense: The link goes to a Google search on pages indexed within the past 24 hours on "'mark dowd' adobe"... currently gives 40 pages about yesterday's issue where blogs/newspapers highlighted an old Player vulnerability. Now try the same term and add "9.0.124", to see how many of... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/bad_reporter_no.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/bad_reporter_no.html Privacy/Security Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:23:26 -0800 SEO reality: Neat points raised by Google's VP of search quality, Udi Manber: "I wish people would put more effort into thinking about how other people will find them and putting the right keywords onto their pages... The content provider should think about how users will look for their content,... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/seo_reality_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/seo_reality_1.html Search tech Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:07:27 -0800 Silverlight tripling: I hate giving Microsoft public-relations people extra exposure, but I spent enough time researching it that I figure others may want to know the meat behind the story too. The headlines go "Silverlight to triple marketshare" and such, but Katherine Noyes of E-Commerce Times has some of the... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/silverlight_tri.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/silverlight_tri.html Business Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:52:36 -0800 "Flash vulnerability" story: I'm bumping this up to my weblog, because OS News requires membership for comments, and their source, Thomas Ptacek, has not yet published the comment I submitted. The Mark Dowd paper describes an issue which was addressed in the current Player, v9.0.124. None of the numerous paragraphs... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/flash_vulnerabi.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/flash_vulnerabi.html Privacy/Security Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:25:03 -0800