Tag Archives: Blogging
Respecting User Privacy in WordPress
In this post, I’m going to do a few things: first, I’m going to quickly recount why Automattic is not respecting user privacy by including Quantcast in its Stats plugin. Next, I’ll argue that reasonable users are unlikely to realize that third-party tracking is appended to the Stats plugin. Finally, I’ll discuss how you can protect your web visitors’ own privacy and security by installing a terrific plugin developed by Frank Goossens. Continue reading
Some Blogroll Love
Drawing attention to the people on my blogroll. Continue reading
Context, Privacy, and (Attempted) Blogger Anonymity
While ‘privacy online’ is commonly something that is seen through the eyes of business privacy policies, how should be think about maintaining privacy online, and realizing privacy norms, in ‘personal’ spaces such as blogs where the bloggers are anonymous? Continue reading
Follow-up: Newspapers and Business Models
I’m not trying to suggest that all ‘big media’ journalism is bad. At the same time, few editors (now) want to actually spend the money on deep investigative reporting (or, alternately, have the budgets to afford such investigative work) – most reporting is a quick noting of facts at a surface level. The problem (as I see it) is that when news sites close themselves off from the world they are asserting that they will rely on a business model that, at this point, has failed them. Continue reading
