a blog about information
We now have a growing and fascinating array of tools with which to share information with others, “social” tools. Having spent some time recently thinking about why we share (posts here and here), I wanted to spend some time sharing my thoughts with you on the topic of what we share; in a few days’ … Continue reading “What we share: Continuing to look at privacy, sideways”
If you’ve heard me speak at conferences over the last few years, then you’ve heard me say this: It took IBM 40 years to “become evil”. It took Microsoft 20. It took Google 10. It took Facebook 5. It took Twitter 2.5……. Actually nobody “became evil”. Becoming evil is not suddenly getting easier. What we’re … Continue reading “Musing about “being evil””
This is a follow-up post to one I wrote nearly three months ago, Musing About Sharing and Privacy. This time, I’m trying to focus on just one thing. What makes people share. Incidentally, while talking about sharing: if you’re interested in privacy I would strongly recommend you read this post by Danah Boyd and this … Continue reading “Why we share: a sideways look at privacy”
The world keeps changing. There was a time when all the conversation related to a blog post could be found in the area around the post, the blog itself. Nowadays things are somewhat more complex. Today, if I want to find out how my post is being received, I have to do a number of … Continue reading “More on the Power of Pull”
The crater, originally uploaded by Steingrimur. Wondering why there’s flight disruption in the UK and Scandinavia? Here’s why. What intrigues me is that the photographs were uploaded nearly a week ago. What happened in between? Do volcanic eruptions of this sort sometimes decide “No, we won’t spew forth any ash”? I felt certain that flickr … Continue reading “How the ash came about”