Author Archives: Mark

Alan Sepinwall on the origins of Lost

Abrams told Braun that there wasnt quite enough there for a series, but suggested that “The island has to be a character in the show, and somethings wrong with the island.” Braun agreed, so long as Abrams promised to keep things in the realm of “scientific fact” and have an explanation for everything.

via Alan Sepinwall on the origins of Lost.

How to Live Without Irony

Irony is the most self-defensive mode, as it allows a person to dodge responsibility for his or her choices, aesthetic and otherwise. To live ironically is to hide in public. It is flagrantly indirect, a form of subterfuge, which means etymologically to “secretly flee” (subter + fuge). Somehow, directness has become unbearable to us.

Christy Wampole – How to Live Without Irony – NYTimes.com.

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore

Eventually, as the number of epic hacks increased, we started to lean on a curious psychological crutch: the notion of the “strong” password. It’s the compromise that growing web companies came up with to keep people signing up and entrusting data to their sites. It’s the Band-Aid that’s now being washed away in a river of blood.

via Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore | Wired.com.

DocRead – Policy Management Software for SharePoint

Policy Management Software for SharePoint

DocRead is policy management software for SharePoint that helps target policies and procedures to groups of users in your organization. Any policy that can be saved into a SharePoint document library (office documents, videos, images, pdf’s, etc) can be assigned to a specific group of users. Once assigned – DocRead tracks who has and has not acknowledged those documents via a suite of reports and charts.