for Friends only
March 26, 2008 at 1:28 pm | In Matthew Hurst | 1 CommentTags: employment, facebook, npr, privacy, science friday, social networks, talk of the nation
We all have mixed-emotions about Facebook, which has become as ubiquitous as Myspace in its heyday. The social network, which began only 4 years ago on a single campus and began to extend to other colleges, today commands 69 million users and countless privacy headaches. So just like with Myspace many people are openly expressing their aggrevation of an expanding and increasingly open network, enough that Facebook recently modified their privacy options.
Besides all of the invites you’ve been sent to add another data-mining application game, there are further privacy concerns off Facebook. On a recent episode of Talk of the Nation – Science Friday, the concerns over public data and private access to it, including a lengthy discussion of the Facebook example. If you or any of your friends have been considering removing content or photos that could be found objectionable by employers, you should probably give this show a listen.
There seems to be a deep generational divide about what is private or public when it is put on the internet. We’ll leave that discussion to take place in the comments, or on Facebook.
Links with Your Coffee Sunday
September 23, 2007 at 12:14 pm | In Coffee links, Matthew Hurst | Leave a CommentTags: chimpotle, crafts, employment, KWMU, play:STL, rockaway armada, rocknroll, Sports
Instead of tailgating this Sunday, you’ve decided to stay in and enjoy the internets. And that’s a fine decision for the sober minded, as we are not exactly sports fans either. So we shall provide you, our comrades, wth some enjoyable link activity to accompany your coffee cup this pleasant ‘morrow.
- Speaking of sporty, our interstate sports rival Chimpotle also espouses a relative apolitical blogging manifesto. Nonetheless he identifies himself as a Marxist (heh).
- Concerned followers of the Miss Rockaway Armada are not sure yet what will become of these aquatic nomads. Although word has yet to be announced on their blog, Thomas and Michael believe the ship might be shored up, as does the coast guard in an interview with KWMU’s Maria Hickey.
- Do you enjoy linking the hell out of your favorite subjects? Gabe says I do, and while I won’t bother refuting him, if you’d like to do that for us I’d like to know. We are still looking for new contributers to welcome in to the Highway 61 family, or at least more blogs to link.
- Although Saint Louis still hasn’t been included among it’s metro area, we saw a few locals (and maybe visitors) using Dodgeball to trade whereabouts during Play:STL this weekend. I sure would like to play Dodgeball with some friends ;) .
- I ought to have mentioned Urban Knitters with the Strange Folk article…no worry, Gabe already wrote about that. Good thing the RockNRoll Craft Show isn’t far behind.
122 days – 204 post = I get the rest of Sunday off. See you later this week with my required 1.69 posts per day.
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