Archive for December 18th, 2007
Some Thoughts on Privacy 2.0
The Pew Internet in American Life project has just come out with a report on how people feel about their online identity. Digital Footprints examines who keeps track of personal information available online, how they feel about inaccuracies they might find, and whether they are nervous that so much personal information is publicly available. The [...]
Posted: 18 December, 2007 in Privacy.
Tags: , OCLC, Pew, Rudibrarian, social networking
Comments: 4
You mean I can’t throw these out?
James Cortada, a historian of computing who works for IBM, has a nice screed (Save the Books!) over at the American Historical Association that heaps a bit of anger on us lil’ old academic librarians. Fresh from reading Nicholson Baker and full of Google digitization anxiety, Cortada charges that a new spectre is haunting libraries: [...]
Posted: 18 December, 2007 in Books, In The Disciplines.
Comments: 3