Yet another blog meme, courtesy of folks at Chronicles of Dissent (by way of Threat Level). This time I'm supposed to grab the nearest book, open to page 123, go down to the 5th sentence and type up the 3…
Tag: Blogging
Google Discloses Blogger’s IP Address (No Subpoena Required)
In more chilling news, it has been reported that Google reached a settlement with a group of Israeli council members and will voluntarily turn over the IP address of a blogger accused of slander to a court overseeing the case.…
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Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0: Unintended Consequences and the Rise of “Netaveillance”
[This thought piece appears on the On The Identity Trail project's blog, blog*on*nymity. Thanks to the amazing folks there for the (second) invitation to contribute to the project. -mz] This post is an attempt to collect and organize some thoughts…
Blogs That Make Me Think
A new meme has germinated the blogosphere: 5 Blogs That Make Me Think. The fine folks at Chronicles of Dissent (a production of Pogo Was Right) included michaelzimmer.org among 5 privacy-related blogs that make them think. Thanks for placing me…
Vaidhyanathan: “No Thanks” to Person of the Year
Siva Vaidhyanathan says "no thanks" to Time magazine naming "you" Person of the Year. From his essay on MSNBC.com: ... Well, thank you, Time, for hyping me, overvaluing me, using me to sell my image back to me, profiling me,…
The five-things-you-didn’t-know-about-me meme
Seth Finkelstein has tagged me with the “five things you don’t know about me” meme spreading through the blogosphere, and I figure if Seth is game enough to play, I can too 🙂 About 8 years ago, before I returned…
Nick Carr: The Great Unread
Nicholas Carr has posted a thoughtful essay on "The Great Unread", describing the relationship between the powerful and the powerless in the blogosphere: What we tell ourselves about the blogosphere - that it's open and democratic and egalitarian, that it…
Boston Globe: Online Plagiarism Strikes Blog World
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…
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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…
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…
