I wrote this this morning in a notebook as a follow up to my post yesterday… and since I don’t have time to clean it up now, I thought I’d present in raw, non-sensible form. Maybe there’s some value in a rough draft:
It’s like giving our money to a bank and having them turn around [...]
Category Archives: Society & economy
Data banks, data brokers and citizen bargaining power
Nov 26th – 6pm
Privacy, publicity and open data
Nov 11th – 7pm
This one should be a quickie.
A fascinating article came out of CNN today: “Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy“.
This is a topic I’ve had opinions about for some time. My somewhat pessimistic view is that privacy is an illusion, and that more and more historic vestiges of so-called privacy are slipping through our fingers with [...]
OpenSocial and Address Book 2.0: Putting People into the Protocol
Oct 31st – 10pm
I wonder if Tim O’Reilly knows something that he’s not telling the rest of us. Or maybe he knows something that the rest of us know, but that we haven’t been able to articulate yet. Who knows.
In any case, he’s been going on about this “Address Book 2.0” for awhile, and if you ask me, [...]