Tomorrow I’m flying to Philadelphia to attend the Stamats’ Generating Successful Interactive Marketing Strategies Conference (that’s quite a mouthful). I’ve attended two previous conferences put on by a somewhat similar organization–Carnegie Communications, but this will be my first event with Stamats. I’m hoping that it’s a worthwhile experience. I’m passing up going to Rochester for the Higher Ed Web Dev Con. Anyone blogging it?

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From ‘A Softer World’

There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.

Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…

I HAVE A MYSPACE ACCOUNT!!1!