Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the “Wilderness Downtown” video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.

Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data and digital technologies. His work takes real world and community-generated data and uses it to reflect on cultural trends and the changing relationship between humans and technology.

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What you can do

If you believe you have any weak passwords for your wordpress blogs, please change them. Try to make sure your admin login name is not admin, as this is the account all the bots are after, this is easily acheived in phpmyadmin.

What have we done?

We have altered the Softaculous installer, you that you will have to specify the admin name, its not pre-filled any more. we have randomised the wp_ prefix on the wordpress installs, so that future installed cannot be Cross-Site-Scripted. We have made alterations to the Active Firewall & Web Application Firewall (WAF) to spot more potential hackers. (As a consequence we have spotted and fixed why some users were getting kicked out of the control panel, so you won’t need proxies or dynamic-dns any more)

Other changes

Increased the bandwidth per GB storage on all accounts, as bandwidth prices dropped for us this year as we have more servers than ever before. We have also taken away Resellers domain,database, ftp & email limits, only limiting them by diskspace and bandwidth, do you can sell more, and upgrade your space and bandwidth when you need to.

What we are doing

We are continuing to innovate, to bring the best hosting to you for a great value price.

Free services

We will help any customers or resellers to move accounts to us from cPanel, we have an automated process, which reads cPanel backups and reformats them to DirectAdmin backups.

Once you have done this, log in to Google+, and from the menu on the left select ‘Pages’. Select the ‘Create new page’ option. The next step is crucial – ensure that you choose the ‘Local Business or Place’ category.

If you can see your business listed select it by clicking. If not select the option to ‘Add your business to Google’ or ‘Look up a different number’. Once you have done this you will probably need to authenticate the location of your business which will, more than likely, involve Google sending you a postcard with a PIN number on it. If you are personally responsible for this, you can add your own name. This will probably be a good idea as you want to ensure that this step is completed. Otherwise your listing will not appear on Google Maps or other properties. This is, after all, what you want, right?

At this point you are pretty much good to go. Obviously you will want to fill in as much information as possible, upload a company logo and an attractive image for the page’s masthead.

We don’t see any point in having two Google+ pages so if you already have one, you may wish to transition the content from that page to the new locally-optimised one. If you need any help with any of this, please feel free to contact LS Digital Media through the usual channels.

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