Being safe as a fan of an artist...

I have worked with artists for over 11 years now... Once in a while I discuss with them what they should focus on in their social networking accounts, especially Facebook. A lot of artists don't moderate tags in their photos or comments to their posts. A lot of people go through personal profiles of artists and their celebrity pages and use them for making their own accounts more popular. This includes adding links to fan and scam profiles and external websites pretending to offer something useful in exchange for asking some insignificant-sounding personal details. This also includes adding tags of random people to every single photo posted on either the artist's personal profile or the verified celebrity page. What people don't know is that a lot of their information is also shared with everyone tagged in a photo that they liked or commented on. Other people can use the information they got for sending unsolicited e-mails to all the people mentioned on your public posts or your profile details. In worst case this open possibility for hackers to use the information for identity theft in countries where associating citizen identification number or social security number with a matching name is not rocket science. What artists don't know is by not moderating their social networking pages and allowing possible fans to befriend with their personal profiles they are putting their real fans at risk and risking their own credibility when they get associated with being medium of unsolicited advertising and criminal activity by a third-party they didn't even consider being a liability.

Watching YouTube videos...

People love watching videos of their favourite artists on YouTube. People also like to make copies of the videos and share on their own channels. What people don't consider is that every time they make a copy of the video, they're stealing views from the video posted by account that was created by the original artist. What people should do instead is create a personal channel that links to the original videos.

Project needing help...

Some of my friends and readers might already know that I'm a freelance software developer. I have been working on a chat client for over 12 years now as a hobby, but since the person who was helping me with it passed away few weeks ago I though I ask the community a favor. The Facebook link for the client is Unizone. It has recent news about updates on the source code... Some of the translations are currently outdated and I need people who are fluent in those languages to update them. I will be making binary builds for 64-bit Windows later when I get my build system working smoothly. Linux users can grab the current source codes from the SourceForge Subversion repository, the instructions are on the project page. Older versions also worked under OS/X and QNX, but those ports are not officially maintained or supported currently as I don't have a compatible machine to test with. For building from sources, Qt 4.x is required, nothing older or newer is supported and most likely will not result in successful build even though a lot of the code is shared with older version that was designed for Qt 3.x series.