Archive for 'Privacy'
Another Case of the Missing Library
Steven just remarked on the Educause training toolkit for information literacy that somehow missed the fact that libraries have been working on it for some time. D’oh! This presentation on an Annenberg School-sponsored media survey also struck me as a place where “library” as a source of information is noticeably absent. (So are books.) Admittedly, [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 27th, 2008 under Commercialization, Privacy, information industries.
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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 by Barbara Fister on December 18th, 2007 under Privacy.
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Ketchup is a Form of Exercise
Catching up on a couple of previous posts . . .
There are two must-read discussions over at if:book on the NEA’s latest threnody for reading. The first looks at Matthew Kirschenbaum’s interesting take, previously published in the Chronicle. The NEA report assumes one sort of reading - solitary, linear, purposeless, and sustained. Yet there [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on December 1st, 2007 under Books, Information Literacy, Privacy, Worth Reading.
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How to Lose Friends and Influence People
The good news is that libraries can have Facebook pages again. Many used to, and then were evicted when Facebook decided only individuals could apply. (Whether you can run apps that lead people away from Facebook - say, into your catalog - is another matter . . .)
The bad news is that Facebook’s new [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on November 15th, 2007 under Commercialization, Information Ethics, Information Literacy, Privacy, Technology Issues.
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The (Over)Examined Life?
Scott Carlson has an interesting piece in the Chronicle - “On the Record, All the Time” - about “lifelogging,” making a digital record of your life day-to-day.
Carlson thinks back to Vannevar Bush’s famous Memex, a method of indexing information by trails of personal associations. He mulls over the implications for learning and memory. Could [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on February 5th, 2007 under Privacy, Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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