Lost In The Tubes

I was very excited when I saw this class listed on the course catalog for this semester, and I couldn’t register for it fast enough! Half of my courses in the program have been for archives & special collections and the other half have been on digital and online library resources. Digital is the future [...]

The issues of online privacy and anonymity are not easy ones to tackle, but they are becoming increasingly pressing as we delve deeper into the Digital Age.  Many conflate anonymity with privacy, and the ability of people to control the information they share by maintaining an anonymous online presence does seem to reinforce the privacy [...]

Reading through the articles on Social Media Guidelines, I noticed right off the bat that all of them are largely saying the same things.  All of them mention the need for common sense and the need for personal responsibility; they each suggest a definition of social media and tell us to be polite.  Several of [...]

When I began my research into anonymity and privacy in Library 2.0 social networking efforts, I expected to find blogs and articles by the usual suspects: Michael’s Casey & Stephens, Jenny Levine, John Blyberg, etc.  But much of the information I’m finding doesn’t come from the world of library literature – it comes from the [...]

Disclaimer:  The results of various searches and the statistics listed in this blog entry are accurate for the date March 21, 2010. I began following the Kansas City Public Library (www.kclibrary.org) on Twitter and Facebook shortly after marrying my wife last summer.  She grew up in a suburb of KC and as a child, the [...]

We spend a lot of time in the world of Web 2.0 talking about anonymity and privacy.  It seems that most people take it as a given in this new world that these things are good and necessary.  To some extent, they are – especially in libraries, where users expect to have their personal information [...]

For my context book, I chose You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier.  Mr. Lanier is renowned within the digital world; he was one of a handful of people in the 1980s that created the internet and the modern digital world.  In particular, he’s credited as one of the inventors of virtual [...]