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Review of The Googlization of Everything
Ultimately, while Vaidhyanathan offers insight into Google itself – its processes, products, and implications of using the companies systems – he is less successful in digging deeply into the nature of technology and Google at a theoretical level. This leaves the reader with an empirical understanding of the topic matter without significant analytic resources to unpack the theoretical significance of their newfound empirical understandings. Continue reading
Google Dashboard – Does It Need Another Name?
While my complaint might be seem a bit trivial – call Google Dashboard something distinctive – I really think that for the end-user it is critical for distinctive feature sets to hold distinctive names. Why not call it ‘Global Data and Privacy Settings’ or something along those lines? At least then you’d find it as the top hit on a Google search… Continue reading
DPI and Canadians’ Reasonable Expectations of Privacy
The emanations from packet transfers should be subject to a new reasonable expectations test, and one that goes beyond a simple analogy between heat emanations and encrypted packet characteristics. 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
