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All posts published in May 2010:

The First Five Years Of Wired, 1992-1997

A great collection of quotes from way back in the day. Look out for Douglas Hofstadter, Sherry Turkle and Steve Jobs on technology and identity.

The Slippery Slope Of Facebook Personal Privacy

Matt McKeon has created an instructive graphic comparison of changes to Facebook’s default profile settings since 2005. The transition between relative and a more or less complete lack of privacy is easy to grasp in this form, and much easier to understand than the labyrinthine multi-page Facebook terms and conditions, or even the manual privacy [...]