Discussions of social media platforms and their impact on communication, collaboration, sociability, privacy, and norms of information flow.
The rise of camera phones, blogs and photo sharing sites like Flickr means people are frequently taking pictures of complete strangers in public places and posting them on the web. A reader asks Wired magazine if that's a violation of…
Read More Privacy, Web 2.0 and Photographing Strangers – Wired has it Wrong
Nick Carr excerpts Web 2.0 guru Tim O'Reilly's commencement speech at the Berkeley School of Information, where he seems to pull back from his typical Web 2.0 hype: If history is any guide, the democratization promised by Web 2.0 will…
The Boston Globe has a story today about plagiarism in blogs. I've previously commented on blog plagiarism - blogiarism - in terms of stealing content in order to drive readers to your site to capitalize on advertising revenue. The Globe's…
Read More Boston Globe: Online Plagiarism Strikes Blog World
The Register reports on shifting MySpace terms of service which could mean that content posted by teenagers today might show up on the front page of the New York Post 10 years from now. Originally, the MySpace ToS granted the…
University of Colorado police have posted online pictures of 150 people (Internet Archive page) smoking pot on the "420" day celebration and are offering a $50 reward for anyone who can identify them. An interesting plea for peer-based surveillance and…
Chris Hoofnagle is attending the Ad:Tech San Francisco conferences on new advertising technologies, where he has found "several trends that have serious privacy implications." Among these is the gathering data from social networking sites like Friendster and Myspace for marketing…
Part of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's justification for being complicit with China's censorship of search engine results is that Google does the same thing in Germany and France, so what's the big deal with time around. Consider this recent statement:Asked…
Read More China vs. Germany: Comparing Google’s Censorship Practices
I've stumbled across a few blog posts extolling the virtues of having a GPS-enabled digital camera. For example: My wife doesn't want to have to carry around two bulky devices and greatly extend the already considerable time it takes her…
MSNBC has an article today where Google defends its cooperation with Chinese censorship. Choice quotes from CEO Eric Schmidt include:"We believe that the decision that we made to follow the law in China was absolutely the right one," Schmidt said…
Susan Crawford has an excellent post that expresses much more intelligently what I've been thinking about lately regarding some of the privacy implications of social networks and other online information services, noting how "social networks are rich minefields for privacy…
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