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 controls which the majority of its users never alter.
So is this cause for celebration of a more open web or a revealing representation of the cynical interests of an unaccountable corporation in action?
Postscript: some important points on this topic from Jeff Jarvis.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-22
- Times Online to introduce pay walls as early as Q1 2010, despite Murdoch admission [via New Media Age] http://icio.us/xfmkuv #
- Checking our twitter via brizzly: great interface, very useful inline video and photos, useful DM functionality. Facebook compatible too. #
- http://icio.us/avrbhl #
- The Trouble With Twitter, James Harkin in The Guardian: deafening banality instead of wisdom of crowds cf comments http://icio.us/ovxwbk #
- http://icio.us/0ww1oe #
- Big head, small body but still a long, thin tail [The Economist] http://icio.us/yhlpv3 #
- Comprehensive UX resource list from @whitneyhess http://icio.us/05ule2 #
- Supercool HTML5 proof of concept. Go on: you know you want to! http://icio.us/wc4rjt #
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Martin Redfern filters out the hype around online social media to relay clear signals without all that distorting noise.
