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How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time: A New York Times piece on the upward trend of employers learning about employees off-clock activities via the employee's online postings, photos, and other traces of online activities. The cultural, ebthicial, and legal implications for these trends are not well established.

Email checksums The Fastmail.fm weblog describes Fastmail's code contribution to the Cyrus IMAP project that will create a SHA-1 checksum of each email message stored. This allows server administrators to both check for consistency in mail store replicas as well as a mechanism to indicate if disk corruption has affected a part of the mail store.

20+ Mobile Internet Applications Mashable gives a run down of a series of mobile internet applications they think are worth using. The major categories include tools for bookmarking, publishing, RSS aggregation, and search.