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arnie Grossblatt

Reading in a Digital Age - 0 views

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publishing e-books reading culture novels Google web 2.0

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 20 May 10 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 20 May 10
     
    Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary
arnie Grossblatt

Your Privacy Online - What They Know - WSJ.com - 9 views

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privacy google ethics data mining

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 15 Nov 10 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 15 Nov 10
     
    A must-read series on online privacy by the Wall Street Journal.  If you browse the web, if you write email, if you have an ISP you should know about this  
  • rumitlove on 15 Nov 10
     
    I know we've discussed in class how Google (and other entities) seems to know so much about us, but isn't it a bit naive to assume the opposite? We expose a piece of our private lives in every way: credit cards for example track where we go, where we eat, what we buy, and the like. Even if paying cash at places, we're signing up for list servs, blogs, campaigns, donating to charities that require contact information, filling out surveys. Given this, is it all that surprising that we are being "watched"? I don't think it's possible to function in today's society without exposing much of ourselves (when you want to pay cash somewhere, the bank knows when, where, what time of day you withdrew money), unless we change our names or deliver false information.
Natalie Barnes

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Absent Silence - 5 views

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google info.trust

shared by Natalie Barnes on 30 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • how Google gets and handles its information is an industrial secret
  • But a great corporation, even one sworn to do no evil, makes no such bargain with the public. There is no reciprocity. Trust is not mutual. It’s understood that the public interest, if considered at all, comes second to the interests of the corporation — profit, growth, and power. So the corporation can and will keep its secrets, even though what it is dealing in is information, even when its business is making knowledge accessible, open, free — the very opposite of keeping secrets.
  • Natalie Barnes on 30 Oct 10
     
    Ursula K. LeGuin is disturbed by Google's keeping secrets about information
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