From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Gaiman’s “MirrorMask” Library Cleverness

20 February 2010
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This past week I watched Neil Gaiman’s “Mirror Mask“. The book-as-film chronicles the dream of a teenager whose mother has become ill and is undergoing surgery. In the scene below, the teenager, Helena, goes to the library with her New Best Friend, Valentine, to find clues to a missing charm. They arrive via flying books [...]

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Google “Buzz”, Too Much Information

18 February 2010
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The other week I wrote about my own complicity in sharing my private data via Facebook. I do this and I continue to do it because I gain something from using Facebook. I think of Facebook as going to a local coffee shop. You are able to keep up with a wide variety of people [...]

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Will Return After a Short Break

10 February 2010
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I must attend to my research work. I will post again early- to mid- week next week (beginning February 15th).

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Facebook’s Privacy Issue — We’re Each Responsible

7 February 2010
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CNN’s Ali Velshi interviews John Abell regarding how much privacy consumers should expect when using Facebook and other social media. I think John Abell gives a rather balanced response. I agree with him that as part of managing my personal data, the information I put on FB is mine, and that when I leave I [...]

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The Public Domain Manifesto

5 February 2010
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“The Public Domain Manifesto” has been released by COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the digital public domain. If you would like to show your support for this cause, after you have read “The Public Domain Manifesto”, you may sign it. You may choose whether or not you would like your signature displayed online. Below, [...]

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What is Your Digital Fingerprint?

4 February 2010
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As a result of Data Privacy Day last week, I have spent the past few days poking around online to see what data about myself I could discover that I didn’t know existed. Before I try to tame others’ data, perhaps I should try taming my own?
I searched under various versions of my name. Now, [...]

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A History of the Internet

4 February 2010
A History of the Internet, c. 1957-2009.

The following animation is a concise, high-level technical history of the Internet, c. 1957-2009. This ~8 minute animation covers its early development and concepts, including the creation of the commercial, military, and scientific networks. This history describes how the politics of the times, such as the Cold War, influenced the decentralized, distributed design and development [...]

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The BooneOakley.com “Un-site” — They “Get It”

2 February 2010
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I admit I was left unimpressed by my first view of an “un-site“. I thought it was a clever-but-messy way to tame all of an organization’s online data, but the “site authors” (in quotes because it isn’t a web site) were trying too hard.
In the same post, the authors of The Social Path also linked [...]

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