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.
Congrats to Karine on the great redesign (and some restructuring) for College Web Editor. Go have a look!
I’ve also created a new link category for Web Programming after digging through the list of links at College Web Editor and finding Institutional Knowledge.
After an all-too-short winter break of hectic traveling and several bouts of illness, I’m back at work and firmly ensconced into my stunted left brain! After a nice, comfortable time cultivating my claim to the titles of “marketer” and “designer,” I’m working on growing into a programmer as well. It has been neither [...]
There’s three new blogs in the Higher Ed Marketing links section below. Go check them out!
Fuzzy Content
University Web Marketing and Usability
Mistaken Goal (actually a Student Affairs and technology blog–very interesting)
Added 12/8: U Marketing Guru
Added 12/11: Intermedia (PR & New Media)
I’ve also got my student work crew in a fishbowl for you. Watch them on [...]
Getting back into the thick of things after a nice little vacation. Lots to catch up on.
There are some excellent new blogs on my roll. Robert “Bob” McPeak, creator of the incredible Goucher College website, has a blog full of fun things. Bob Johnson has a blog on internet marketing for higher [...]
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…
