Here I was all ready to fire-off a nightly rant when I find myself eating crow. I was getting tired of those who seemed to worship the colleges that can/choose to afford Stamats (*cough* Furman *cough*). I think Stamats does okay with print materials, and their presentations at conferences have frequently been informative. However, their [...]
Well here’s what I’ve come up with after tinkering with it all day. I’m not sure I’m sold on it yet, but it seemed to make the bossman pretty excited about the possibilities, and that is always a plus. Now to let it sit on a shelf for a bit and mull it over. If [...]
I’m in a redesigning mood. Last night I started getting that itchy, driven feeling. It means that I know that the current Warren Wilson website does not represent my best work. I know that, very likely, my best work will verge too closely on some edge of artsy that isn’t going to fly with the [...]
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…
