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An excellent overview of how the internet is changing reality. In a podcast I heard on the CBC, (Spark, September 2009) he also talkedc about how google used to store every ‘search queery” forever. Each ‘seach’ that you do is associated with your IP address. (This practice has been changed and they now they store [...]

10 Cool Facebook Status Tips and Tricks. Here’s a few good tips for those of us trying to get better at using the FB space.

Please read. This is from the lips of an internet God. Clay Shirky: Paywall will underperform – the numbers dont add up | Technology | The Guardian. Here’s another review of Shirky’s second book. “Shirky’s hypothesis is that a lot of the 20th century stuff we used to take for granted — most people didn’t [...]

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus via Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody. Here is a summary of a speech Clay Shirkey make back in 2008. In it he addresses the mainstream question about online activities “where do people find the time?”. A good read for an overview of the foundational shift from [...]

Spring is a busy time. While it’s the time for new ideas and nurturing emerging projects and ideas, I also like tidying up a few loose ends. In the last couple weeks I’ve updated various documents on our website. The SOLOS 2008/2009 Annual Report is available on our About Us page.  We’ve also wrapped up [...]

Here is a quick visual on how much Facebook has changed their privacy settings since 2005.  As you can see, the original amount of information that was public is very different from what is public now. The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook We all have to make up our own mind about how we’re going [...]

Facebook Calls All Hands Meeting On Privacy. Hopefully  Facebook is going to make some changes. I’ll keep you posted on what happens.

I’ve been talking in our SOLOS Presentations lately about the need to differentiate between personal and public space.  This is a difficult process and, as you probably know if you’ve tried to do this, the line between personal and professional is blurry in many ways.  This is my attempt to role model that difficult negotiation. [...]

Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity