Thomas Friedman recently briefly examined the firing of CNN editor Octavia Nasr. He touches on something that I think points out a coming shift in our on and offline social persona — how closely do we have to watch what we say online? Certainly there are limits, but it seems as though skittishness of employers …
I have a backlog of articles that are a little stale, but resonated to such a degree that i can’t resist commenting a bit on them. Hopefully they are new news to someone.
I’ll admit to having let my guard down a bit on the privacy front. While I was initially concerned by things like the indexing of Gmail e-mails and putting personal information like my schedule on the web, I’ve since seen that it has some value. Yet, cases like Facebook’s privacy control changes and Apple’s collection …
New York Times: Online, We Pay With Our Time Spent Searching http://nyti.ms/bhjzFr Here’s an insightful article from the Times about the value of our time online. It resonated with me on two levels. First, since I’m toying with the idea of cutting cable, the cost/benefit calculation of spending time finding television instead of having it …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
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