I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson. Other people's privacy - Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog (Jan 2010) In the wake of Google’s revelation last week of a concerted, sophisticated cyber attack on many corporate networks, including its own Gmail service, Eric Schmidt’s recent comments about privacy become even more troubling.
As you’ll recall, in a December 3 CNBC interview, Schmidt said, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines – including Google – do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.” The Many Challenges of Social Network Sites. In this blog, I strive to provide a balanced viewpoint of both the benefits and challenges of a web strategy, it’s easy for us to become over-hyped and then fall right into the pit of exuberance.
Who owns your social media account? Recently I blogged about why your boss should allow you to use social media in the workplace.
This has a lot of advantages (read my previous blog to find out why). Who owns the keys to your Twitter account? But what happens when your workplace not only allows you to use social media, but requests that you use it? Take this to the extreme and consider – who then owns your social media account? This is a very important question, which I don’t believe has been debated enough. . • References where they work • Might include a link to their work website address or work’s Twitter handle • Might even include the workplace name as part of their personal Twitter handle, for example @AndyAtStarbucks. They say today’s employee will have many jobs in their lifetime.
Take for example the case of journalist Laura Kuenssberg, who amassed quite a Twitter following while working for the BBC. What should she have done? The Online Journalism Blog captured some of the debate. Technology protest: what do you do? Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research write about some responses to social media protest: It’s common, and easy, to say “just don’t use it.”
There’s actually a term for this– technology refusal– meaning people who strategically “opt out” of using overwhelmingly prevalent technologies. “I’m Your Biggest Fan, I’ll Follow You Until You Love Me”: Anonymity, Privilege, and the Quest for Personal Truth Border House. This article will be a rather long one so I beg your forgiveness in advance, but it is a piece of great personal importance to me.
The debate it touches on is one that imbricates with all of our geek lives, and the lives of those beyond our particular nerdy circles. Indeed, as Blizzard recently proved, it is a debate that will touch on many online video game properties. Randi Zuckerberg, marketing director for Facebook, caused a bit of a stir recently when she resurrected her brother’s ideological hobby horse and proclaimed that progress requires the death of anonymity on the Internet. It is another effort to impose on Internet users a demand for a particular kind of truth that severely disadvantages people from certain backgrounds; to wit, Ms. Zuckerberg and her brother are both cis. An Ideology by Any Other Name What I find fascinating about our society is the great importance we place on our names. Randi Zuckerberg To speak from my own perspective, I hated my old name with a passion. Mark Zuckerberg on Data Portability: An Interview - ReadWriteWeb.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is at SXSW doing press interviews today and many people want to know what his thoughts are concerning data portability.
There's a big web out there that would like to give and take user data in and out of Facebook. We focused on data portability in our conversation with Zuckerberg and got a fairly clear picture of his views on the subject. I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson. The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - The Atlantic - Technology - Alexis Madrigal - After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups.
Finnish teenagers performing digital ennui in 1996 2006. Reuters. We're there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the air: Well, we're living in it. "The third generation of data and voice communications -- the convergence of mobile phones and the Internet, high-speed wireless data access, intelligent networks, and pervasive computing -- will shape how we work, shop, pay bills, flirt, keep appointments, conduct wars, keep up with our children, and write poetry in the next century. " That's Steve Silberman reporting for Wired in 1999, which was 13 years ago, if you're keeping count. The question is, as it has always been: now what?
Decades ago, the answer was, "Build the Internet. " What we've seen since have been evolutionary improvements on the patterns established five years ago. That paradigm has run its course.