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Blake DowlingFebruary 5, 2017

We hear about the Russian mob and Russian hackers all the time, especially in politics and technology. The Russian mob is all over the dark web selling ransomware toolkits and fake credit cards. The Russians created ransomware, a threat that continues to wreak havoc all over the world in various forms. We can’t all be […]

Joe HendersonJanuary 30, 2017

It might be easy to dismiss the harsh comments by U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa regarding President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order that called for “extreme vetting” of potential refugees from seven Muslim nations. As Mitch Perry reported Sunday on SaintPetersBlog, Castor said, “President Trump’s executive order targeting and banning legal permanent residents and […]

Associated PressJanuary 30, 2017

Trump’s temporary halt to the U.S. refugee program — the most consequential policy he’s unveiled in his presidency’s opening days — wreaked havoc at airports and sparked protests across the country. The order left Trump’s own government agencies scrambling, his Republican Party divided and allies around the world uneasy. A federal judge issued an emergency […]

Scott PowersJanuary 25, 2017

Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Mike Ertel wants voters to know that that the voting process is sound and he believes it was not corrupted by millions of illegal votes in November as President Donald Trump has alleged. Ertel, a Republican, took to social media Wednesday morning to spread that message. He conceded there may […]

Associated PressJanuary 18, 2017

A South Florida man has been charged with threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump in a video posted online. A Miami Beach police report released Wednesday identified the suspect as 51-year-old Dominic Puopolo. Jail records show Puopolo is being held without bail on state charges of threatening harm against a public servant. Court records do […]

Scott PowersJanuary 9, 2017

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio restarted his social media campaign to highlight political prisoners worldwide Monday, this time spotlighting a Russian imprisoned under President Vladimir Putin for “unauthorized assembly, and calling out Putin by name. “#Russia must immediately and unconditionally release prisoner of conscience Ildar Dadin #expressionNOToppression,” Florida’s Republican senator tweeted Monday morning. It’s a restart of […]

Florence SnyderDecember 14, 2016

Vladimir Putin may be the highest-tech mass murder on the planet, but he has not been able to silence the men, women and children in Syria who are writing their last wills and testaments on Twitter. One of them is a seven-year-old girl named Bana. With a little tech support from her mom, she tweeted […]

Blake DowlingDecember 1, 2016

I think I have downloaded more apps in the past five years than anyone in the southern United States. When the kids were younger, new game? Done. Five a day, we would play incessantly, then delete. The gaming app 100 Balls took over two weeks of our life; Stack took a few weeks. Jet Pack […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 4, 2016

In the words of The Smiths, “that joke isn’t funny anymore.” That seemed to be the reaction of the office of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry Tuesday to the latest tweet from @jaxmayorcurry, a parody account of the current chief executive. “The mayor uses and relies on social media for information,” said City of Jacksonville Director of Public Affairs […]

Blake DowlingOctober 3, 2016

Who remembers the short-lived site, Friendster? Six years ago I was asked to sit on a panel at a conference to give “expert advice” on social media use at work. I wish someone had shot some video footage; in the lifetime of social media, six years is an eternity. Just think … in 2008, Myspace […]

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Blake Dowling: The Russian (hackers) are coming

Kathy Castor is right calling ‘extreme vetting’ order immoral, un-American

Donald Trump campaigned as a disrupter, begins governing by chaos

Seminole elections chief Mike Ertel takes to social media to defend voting integrity

Florida man charged with making online threat against Donald Trump

Marco Rubio puts Russian in political oppression spotlight – and calls out Vladimir Putin

#NeverAgain is the lie that’s always trending

Blake Dowling: Apps for everything

Lenny Curry’s office to parody Twitter account: Public safety is no joke

Blake Dowling: Expert advice on navigating the social media universe