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There was a man standing on a downtown street corner this afternoon – the kind of man that you know is homeless the moment you lay eyes on him. He had a suitcase with all his possessions in it. The interesting thing about this homeless man is that, unlike every other homeless person you pass [...]

When we read Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” in LIS 768, we also read a rebuttal article, “The Critics Need a Reboot” by David Wolman. I remember being very disappointed by Mr. Wolman’s article. It was all shallow and surface, and in this it did more to support Mr. Carr’s arguments than it did [...]

Infographic by PPC Blog

Yesterday (May 26, 2010), Facebook announced that they’re rolling out new privacy features.  It looks like they’re giving a good deal of control back to the users and making the interface simpler.  In particular, there will now be an option that prevents third parties from knowing who your friends are, or what your interests are.  [...]

Wow.  I wish I’d seen this graphic while we were still in class:

http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

Kind of frightening, isn’t it?

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 [...]

I was thinking more about our discussions in class about signage in libraries and how we should communicate rules to patrons.  I really like the philosophy that it works better for everyone if you tell people what they can do, rather than what they can’t.  For whatever reason, this reminded me a debate I had [...]

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 them [...]

For our Personal Learning Network project, we started with a face-to-face discussion – appropriately enough, given how important we all feel personal interaction is to a PLN.  We talked about what we each knew and didn’t know about PLNs, we asked each other questions, explored various avenues for approaching this topic, and by the end [...]

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 [...]