Web 2.0 proponent Dion Hinchcliffe evangelizes about the virtues of Web 2.0: Invariably, Web 2.0 is a term you love to hate or hate to love but either way, you'll know you'll get folk's attention by saying it. I've been…
Category: Social Media
Discussions of social media platforms and their impact on communication, collaboration, sociability, privacy, and norms of information flow.
Riya: Facial recognition for the masses
My earlier musings on Web 2.0's focus on the collection of (personal) metadata and the potential for the commercial aggregation of images of my likeness come into renewed focus with the launch of Riya (needs IE6 for PC; Firefox for…
Keen: Web 2.0, Marxism, and Unintended Consequences
I'm late commenting on this, but I just read Andrew Keen's provocative piece in the Weekly Standard on the Web 2.0 movement. Keen has received considerable criticism for making comparisons between the Web 2.0 meme and Marxism, but he does…
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Commercial Data Aggregation…of My Image?
Today's Colloquium on Information Technology & Society at NYU Law School featured talk by Jonathan Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on recent developments in facial recognition technologies and algorithms. Some of the results suggested that…
Ethics of Blogiarism
There's been quite a bit of discussion lately across the blogosphere on "blogiarism," the practice of cutting and pasting content from one blog onto your own without any link, attribution, editing or commentary in order to drive readers to your…
Big Brother 2.0: James McQuivey on the coming Surveillance Society
I recently came across James McQuivey's blog Big Brother 2.0, which seems to be a launch-pad for his forthcoming book: Big Brother 2.0: Why We Should Become a Surveillance Society. His thesis appears to be that the coming "surveillance society"…
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Privacy Norms in the Blogosphere
Daniel Solove (guest blogging at Balkinization) writes about privacy norms in the blogosphere, citing a case where a Korean woman who didn't clean up her dog's waste was subject to highly critical and invase online treatment. As one blogger described…
Social Bookmarking in Yahoo’s MyWeb 2.0
Yahoo launched a beta version of MyWeb 2.0 which integrates personalized searching with tagging and social bookmarking. From SearchEngineWatch:With the release of MyWeb 2.0, Yahoo has added an extensive array of new features focused on community-based searching and sharing of…
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
The growth of tagging (also referred to as social bookmarking or folksonomy) has received increased media attention recently. CNN claims tagging "could be our salvation as we attempt to sift through the growing clutter of data we're amassing on our…
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Schneier on Real ID
For those concerned or otherwise interested in the REAL ID Act, which establishes uniform standards for state driver's licenses, effectively creating a national ID card, you must read Bruce Schneier's thought-provoking analysis. Highlights include:It's a bad idea, and is going…
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