Yesterday, Twitter introduced some changes to their privacy model. Previously, if you employed privacy (kept your Twitters private), allowing someone to follow you forced reciprocation. That is, in turn, you were forced to follow your followers. Personally, this situation has always been troublesome: I’ve wanted to keep my Twitters private, mostly to prevent [...]
Dave Johnson, Wayne Sutton and a cast of supporters have been doing heroic work preparing for 2008’s BarCampRDU. The conference will go down this Saturday, August 2. I’m really looking forward to attending – this is the first time I’m not wearing the organizer hat, so it means I may actually get to [...]
In a few days I’ll be heading off to the Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems in Ann Arbor, MI. This is the inaugural institute, and from the looks of things it is going to be great. In preparing for the event, we’ve been asked to think about what socio-technical means [...]
Compared to some people, I probably appear to be an extreme consumer of information. I follow a few hundred RSS feeds, 60-odd people on Twitter, belong to more listservs than I should, and so on. Compared to others – say uber-bloggers Robert Scoble or Mike Arrington – my information diet hardly registers. [...]
News has moved quickly since Wednesday’s ruling by Judge Louis Stanton in Viacom et. al. vs YouTube et. al., the landmark ruling ordering the transfer of all YouTube user histories. Foremost, Google has indicated it will not appeal the ruling, choosing instead to fight the battle in the court of public opinion. To [...]
This fall I’ll be teaching a new course – its title keeps evolving, but we’ll be looking at the technologies and processes we use to mediate relationships online. The course will be held Monday evenings, from 6-8:30 in Manning 307. Apparently there was a little confusion over the date/time, so I wanted to [...]
In a decision catastrophic to digital privacy rights, a federal judge has ordered that Google turn over the video-consumption histories of all YouTube users. The order, which represents the decision of Judge Louis Stanton in the ongoing YouTube et. al. v. Viacom et. al., stipulates that Google must turn over the following:
A record of [...]
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