Gareth-Michael Skarka tweeted this morning: Deleting Facebook accounts over privacy concerns is the new slacktivist hotness. If you’re concerned about less-savvy users — TEACH THEM. And he’s absolutely right. Colleen Harris blogged last week: It’s not the nerds, social networking experts, librarians, Alex Scobles or other techgeeks Facebooks awful privacy settings take advantage of, though [...]
I just deleted my Facebook account. Why? In part it’s because of my concerns over Facebook’s frequent changing of the goalposts when it comes to privacy. But even more, it’s Facebook’s growth as an all-purpose internet site. To my mind, Facebook is trying to be AOL 2.0–a site that provides you with email, IM, image [...]
Just now, I tweeted: “Dear Google: Opt-in social networks are good. Opt-out social networks are bad. Please remember this.” I was speaking in regards to Google Buzz, the company’s latest social networking release. Buzz is a social aggregator, like FriendFeed, pulling your content from different sites into one stream, where your friends can comment on [...]
Most of the time, I think my optimism and enthusiasm is justified, because life regularly turns out to be at least as amazing as I expect and imagine it will be. But sometimes…not so much. I was really, really excited about Google Wave when I first learned about it. I snagged an invite to start [...]
As much as I inherently cast a suspicious eye towards large companies, I have to say, Google regularly knocks my socks off. I’ve just learned more about their huge new project, Google Wave, and not only are my socks knocked off, my jaw is on the floor and my eyes are popping out of my [...]
This has not been the best year of my life, which is particularly bad as I was saying the same thing last year. It hasn’t been all sewage and shadows–I’ve had some really good times this year. But it feels like the bad has exceeded the good, in effect if not in actual instance. There’s [...]
I haven’t posted here in a while. Computers in Libraries and KLA really got me fired up, but I’ve since been very busy with work and my personal life. I’m hoping that despite any continuing business, I’ll be posting more from now on. One of the things I’ve been busy with is preparing for a [...]
At our Kansas Library Association conference presentation, an attendee asked a very good question: with all of this social networking on the internet, where the personal and the professional often blurs, what happens if a potential employer does an internet search on you and finds things that could be taken badly out of context or [...]
I’ve just created a Library Society of the World page on Facebook. We’re everywhere!
Thanks to my conference sister Rikhei Harris, the Library Society of the World now has a group on LibraryThing. w00t!
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