Bar Camp LA 5 at AOL in Beverly Hills March 1-2, 2008

Bar Camp LA 5 at AOL in Beverly Hills March 1-2, 2008

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. BarCampLA-5 is scheduled for next week, March 1 and 2, 2008, at the AOL Beverly Hills Campus in Los Angeles, California. I’m looking forward to attending my second Los Angeles based Barcamp (see Barcamp LA 4) and getting reconnected with other tech minded folks in the LA area. The March BarCamp…

Orthotic Foot Scanning At Five Adidas Locations

Orthotic Foot Scanning At Five Adidas Locations

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. While I was in San Francisco this past Saturday, checking out the Nike Women’s Marathon Preview, I had some time to visit the Adidas store in Union Square. On the ground level of the store was a new foot scanning system that allows people to get custom orthotic fitting analysis while…

WikiSleuth using WikiScanner to uncover Wikipedia edits on your IP address

WikiSleuth using WikiScanner to uncover Wikipedia edits on your IP address

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. In the past two days, you’ve likely seen the news regarding the mad scientist creation of Virgil Griffith, his ultra wicked WikiScanner. We posted a Wikipedia manipulation article regarding Virgil and his IP matching, corporate chaos creating, wikipedia anonymous user, can opener type tool. The second article was more about Virgil…

Wikipedia Whitewash Spin Jobs and Virgil Griffith’s WikiScanner Tool

Wikipedia Whitewash Spin Jobs and Virgil Griffith’s WikiScanner Tool

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I’ve been doing research for more than a year now on a single Wikipedia entry that I have been particularly interested in. I’ve had some suspicions as to who’s making the edits on the particular page, and if any organizations were involved. Thanks to a new tool created by Caltech graduate…