Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets

Like most people who are active online, I read a lot off the web, and there isn’t any way for me to analyze and critique much of what I’m reading on this site; I touch on items here and there, but I can’t be systematic on many topics. For some time I’ve used delicious to tag articles, and all of those tags are available to anyone who’s interested in using them to comb through my bookmarks. This said, it was recently pointed out that I have a foolish number of tags (they’re there so that *I* can cull articles based on tag-based query) which makes navigating my delicious stream…unpleasant.

Given my own temporal limitations and the critique of my tagging system, I’ve added an RSS feed titled ‘Worth Reading‘ to the right-hand side of the site, over beside the blogroll. The feed just follows the ‘ttt‘ tag from my delicious stream (ttt=Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets) and will provide subscribers with articles, blog posts, news pieces, and academic papers that relate to topics often written about here (i.e. security, copyright, deep packet inspection, p2p, social networking, etc) as well as articles on the academy that are useful and/or thought provoking. I’m not digging through my archive to identify items for this feed – time constraints and sanity preclude this – but will be tagging anything relevant to this space so it’ll show up in the RSS.

Hope it’s useful and/or interesting. Feedback is always welcome!

I’ve just spent the past little while implementing a few changes to the site – there is a new template that should be a bit easier to read, as well as some SEO stuff under the hood that is running now. Let me know if you run into any weird issues, though I think that I’ve tested all the code that was modified enough that I’ve squashed the bugs that had crept up.

The full list of changes includes: a direct link to all bookmarks I’ve tagged with as relating to DPI in delicious, an updated CV, a picture in the ‘About’ section, no more direct link to my edublog (which will, eventually, get drawn into this blog), a new theme (plus some code changes), a few SEO plugins.

I’m off to Ontario to attend the Summer Surveillance Studies Workshop at Queen’s University for the next little while, so there will be far fewer posts than I’ve been producing of late. There is a good one thinking about conceptualization of privacy that’ll be posted in my absence while I’m away, which sees me continuing to reflect on the challenges of developing privacy theories against the ‘pragmatic realities’ of contemporary virtualized life. I hope you enjoy it.

Be back a while!

As an administrative note, I’ll be updating the version of Wordpress that I’m using and be performing some tweaks to the page navigation of the site for a little while tonight. Let me know if anything breaks!