How do I effectively blog?
Christopher Brooks, 25 Oct 2007
Last updated: 15 Oct 2008

We have two blogs:

1. TRUST Security and Privacy Blog - This blog is for news items related to Security and Privacy, but that don't specifically mention TRUST.
2. TRUST Website News - This blog is for news items that mention people associated with TRUST.

We use slightly overlapping sources for these blogs.

For the TRUST Security and Privacy Blog, the following sources should be checked every day:

• Slashdot
• ACMTechNews

Also, be sure to subscribe to Risks Digest.

Another resource is iGoogle, where you can set up feeds from security related news sources.

For the TRUST Website News, we use the above sources and look for specific mentions of TRUST researchers.

A really good source of information is to use Google Alerts. To do this requires setting up a Google account and then setting up alerts for faculty associated with TRUST. To reduce false positives, it is usually best if you include the name of the university with the name of the faculty member. We have the trustnews workgroup, which uses the truststc account at gmail to provide news feeds that look for TRUST researchers.

Admins: see How does the trustnews google news feed work?

Other places to look:

• Samuelson Law Clinic
• eWeek Security
• The most effective way to get news items is to ask faculty, students and researchers to send you items when their name appears in the media.