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Table of Contents Overview of Options. Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions. The Death of the Cyberflâneur. Tides are changing or web surfers. David Weinberger has a new book out entitled Too Big to Know in which he argues that one of the implications of a comprehensively networked society is that the nature of knowledge itself is changing.

Tides are changing or web surfers

"As knowledge becomes networked," he writes, "the smartest person in the room isn't the person standing at the front lecturing us, and isn't the collective wisdom of those in the room. The smartest person in the room is the room itself: the network that joins the people and ideas in the room, and connects to those outside of it... Knowledge is becoming inextricable from – literally unthinkable without – the network that enables it. " Analysis & Opinion. By Don Tapscott The views expressed are his own.

Analysis & Opinion

No doubt executives at Facebook are licking their wounds about the tough sanctions imposed on the company by the Federal Trade Commission last month. The social media juggernaut must now re-architect its systems and policies to protect privacy. It’s likely the bankers preparing Facebook’s imminent IPO are feeling the pain, too. But the FTC many have unwittingly saved the company.