What Happens Every 60 Seconds on the Internet?
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After reading Marshal Kirkpatrick's article on ReadWriteWeb last night, I decided it was now time for me to set a few policies of my own with respect to my privacy. For some time now, Facebook's constant revisions of its privacy policy has troubled me. It has not just been the waffling and a lack of a clear ethical foundation that bothers me, but I know that Facebook is in a position to influence the decisions of other social media sites and networks. If Facebook does it, the others will think about doing it themselves. However, privacy policies are not the only issues I've considered lately.
Over the last month or so, I've been working to focus my attention on the social media sites and resources that truly matter to me. I don't have the time to keep up with them all, and so many of them are becoming redundant. While they may be important for different reasons, I have to concentrate on what puts bread on the table. I've been amazed time and again by how many sites do not make provisions for deleting accounts and personal information. They make it very easy to set up an account but difficult, if not impossible, to delete one. This particular practice is but one of a variety of social networking anti-patterns that inform my own current policies regarding registering with websites and services.
The reason I'm taking the time to write about this, rather than just doing it myself, is these are issues that many have not considered or considered carefully. The amount of information available on the internet is staggering. The amount of your personal information available to people that know how and where to look just may shock you. For this reason, I'm putting into effect the following four policies.
If nothing is done to make social network sites sit up and take notice, nothing will happen. If Zuckerberg's comments are any measure of the thinking and sentiments of sites like Facebook, they already believe they have a right to your personal information.
Just me and my sense of humor at work. Hope you like the New Year's offering.
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Designed by Tom Bojarczuk: "It's based on the Celtic wheel of the year, but with a twist. In agrarian societies, time is seen as an eternal cycle. In our (post) industrial society, we see time as an arrow shooting straight to the future, but at the same time our calendars are these little boxes that repeat over and over again and go nowhere. I wanted to design a calendar that would combine the idea of cyclic time with the idea of progress, thus the spiral calendar was born. It is actually a segment of a spiral, almost circular, but at the end of the cycle you don't return to the beginning, but start a new one."
I would ask you just to bear with me a bit longer while I finish redesigning (customizing) my blog here.
A very interesting demonstration of type that is not only dynamic but also interactive.
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