Monthly Archives: May 2010

Technology & Media
| 05/31/2010 | Jeff DeChambeau

The privacy discussion we need to have

I’ve written previously about gleaning insight into consumer habits by looking at log files, and profiled the so-called “bot mediated reality” of security consultant turned fiction author Daniel Suarez. So, when facebook’s latest privacy debacle …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 05/27/2010 | Tim Bevins

Social Media: Prelude to … the good old ways?

I just read Peter Cappelli’s post at Human Resource Executive Online, The Promise and Limitations of Social Media. I have to respectfully disagree with the objections raised and with the conclusion. Cappelli lists the advantages …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 05/19/2010 | Tim Bevins

It's like I thought.

New research – well worth reading – from Accenture on data privacy shows that only 3% of people (15,000 individual adult-age respondents) consider privacy “most important” when participating in online social networks, blogs, or wikis. …   Read more

Technology & Media
| 05/18/2010 | Tim Bevins

Facebook = Evil. Quit now or die!

Okay, I don’t mean that. What I really mean is, fix your privacy settings, think about what you are posting if you have anything like a job or a future at stake, and get on …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 05/12/2010 | Tim Bevins

“The Data-Driven Life”: Who’s not interested in discovery?

Gary Wolf writes in The New York Times about self-measurement, the desire of some people to measure what they do, say, think, eat, and more, sometimes just for the sake of doing it and other …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 05/10/2010 | Naumi Haque

Hothouse innovation redux: The world “upside down”

Recently The Economist released a feature report on how innovation in emerging markets may be eclipsing innovation in North America. The report, The world turned upside down (click “Buy PDF” for a complimentary copy courtesy …   Read more

Technology & Media
| 05/07/2010 | Jeff DeChambeau

A rough week for Facebook (and the privacy of facebook users)

Early last week a blog post titled Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook starting making the rounds. The article has been followed by a dogpile of evidence supporting any decision to quit the site. …   Read more

Technology & Media
| 05/03/2010 | Tim Bevins

Is “Unvarnished.com” an Internet inevitability?

I just heard about the site Unvarnished in Jeremiah Owyang’s daily email, and decided to check it out. It is still in beta. I think people need to read this page to draw their own …   Read more