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Six degrees of separation and your privacy settings

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Related to my post yesterday about Facebook’s privacy settings: danah boyd posted in more detail about the implications of Facebooks privacy (“Facebook and ‘radical transparency’“). These two paragraphs convey the problem I often see in which people haven’t thought through the implications of the “network” part of social networks: A while back, I was talking […]

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How to simplify your privacy on Facebook (and everywhere else on the web)

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Yesterday the New York Times made a noble attempt to map Facebook’s new, super-complicated privacy settings, via a few well-designed graphics and an accompanying article (“The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking,” by Nick Bilton, 5/12/2010). The new opt-out settings certainly are complex. Facebook users who hope to make their personal information private should be […]

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Getting passionate about passion

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British comedian/writer/actor/generally-brilliant-person David Mitchell gets passionate about passion in advertising

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Cover It Live: great tool for liveblogging an event

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Last night I attended an interesting discussion at Pitt, “The Future of the Book.” I knew ahead of time that I’d want to share my notes, and I was curious how others might react to the ideas. So I set up an event on Cover It Live. It’s a simple-to-use gadget for documenting anything as […]

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Results versus hype: can small businesses realize value from social media?

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An article in the Wall Street Journal last week (“Entrepreneurs Question Value of Social Media,” Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ 3/15/2010) said that a recent study showed that small firms were having mixed results in their use of social media. In and among the survey results, the article gives several examples of companies seeing a positive […]

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“Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity” by danah boyd

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For an excellent overview of the concepts and issues surrounding online privacy and publicity, check out danah boyd’s keynote speech from SXSWi for 2010. Just because a large percentage of people engage in public does not mean that they don’t care about privacy. Pew found that 85% of adults want to control who has access […]

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