Tag Archives: web 2.0
Weebly, Analytics, and Privacy Violations (Updated II)
Google demands that a very low baseline be met as a condition of using Analytics to surveil web visitors: they should be obliged to ensure that the baseline is met and, where it isn’t, apply consequences for violating Google’s terms of service. If the company can take a hard line on pseudonyms on their social networking service, why can’t they take a similar line concerning the use of the company’s older Analytics product? Continue reading
References for Traffic Analysis, Privacy, and Social Media
In my presentation at Social Media Camp Victoria, I drew heavily from various academic literatures and public sources. Given the nature of talks, it’s nearly impossible to cite as you’re talking without entirely disrupting the flow of the presentation. This post is an attempted end-run/compromise to that problem: you get references and (what was, I hope) a presentation that flowed nicely! Continue reading
Social Networking – Why We Need to Educate Youth
This is a short post, but gives three definitive examples of why we need to develop and instill norms in youth concerning how to use digital resources. Let’s help this hottie find her camera! Here’s the story (remember that…story). In … Continue reading
Education, Social Networks, and Privacy
In this post I want to consider privacy from a bit of a ‘weird’ point of view: What information do you want students to reveal to each other and yourself, and what do you want to reveal to them? What … Continue reading
