The Future of Reputation by Daniel Solove Description [from Amazon]: Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there’s a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google [...]
In the last two months, both Seth Godin and Paul Boutin have announced the death of blogs. The most damning symptom, they say, is the weak showing of single-author blogs in the Technorati top 100 list and the growing interest in micro-blogging and social networking platforms like Twitter, Pownce, and Facebook. The web is changing, becoming faster and more social, but that’s no reason to bury your blog. Here are five ways your blog can thrive in the next few years.
If you believe Steve Jobs, then reading good, old-fashioned paper books is becoming a dead practice. I, for one, love books. I love how they feel, how they smell, and I love the process of taking long periods of time to explore and absorb ideas. That’s why, as a regular feature here at erelevant, I’d like to invite you to read some interesting books with us as part of a virtual reading group!
[...] The best way for me to innovate and enjoy what I do is to go native. Time to slip into the digital tribe and move among its peoples—virtual, 3D hands brushing in the darkness of social networked second lives, a million onymous youth dancing hyper-textualy into the night, the thrumming of drum and bass shared via mapped music genomes, and the twinkling glow of liquid-crystal-pixels offering up the entire geo-positioned world like an altar to a social, multi-cultural, semantic, hive-minded, Mercurial GOD.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ – Blog of Danah Boyd. A PhD student studying privacy and the internet. http://greenteaicecream.co.uk/ – “Social Value and the Social Web” http://www.fastcompany.com/ – Interesting blog associated with Fast Company magazine.
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…
