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Sunday, February 23, 2003 |
Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy, and the Internet, by James Grimmelmann, Law Meme.
A journalist attends the World Economic Forum and writes her friends an email about the experience. Two weeks later, that email is on the Web, people she's never met are correcting her spelling, and the journalist is vowing to go back to longhand.
Welcome to the world of accidental privacy spills. Compared with the problem of keeping personal email private, copyright and spam are easy.
(Thanks, Daypop Top 40!)
3:27:30 PM 
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I found the 1000 journals project
an independent, privately funded social experiment. It is an attempt to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels, to see where they go, and what people do with them.
thanks to Jimmy T (and I found Jimmy T thanks to All Consuming (and I forget how first I found All Consuming, which is too bad 'cause then I could go one parenthetical level deeper here (except I see I managed two without the reference, which isn't so bad))).
9:45:44 AM
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The souls of Net
folk (Two years ago on t'other blog) -- a variety of news, some of it
annual:
- the birthday of W.E.B. DuBois
- Can Salon Make It? With rapid-response news instincts, provocative (if
predictably liberal)political commentary and lots of sex, Salon.com is the
Web's preeminent independent venue for journalism. But is there a business
model to keep it alive?
- Art's Cold Welcome on the Web, NYT op-ed, by Paulina Borsook
- Steganography. Pirate Utopia: What does Osama bin Laden's Web porn
infiltration have to do with Napster's fight for life? Julian Dibbell
connects the microdots, in FEED
- Phil Zimmermann departs Network Associates, vouches for all versions of
PGP produced by NAI, and PGP Security, a division of NAI, up to and
including the current (January 2001) release, PGP 7.0.3, as free of back
doors, and explains what he'll do next
- How to say "Oh my god! There's an axe in my head," in various languages
- The Opera Ain't Over 'Til the Cyber-Lady Sings
- Playing Their Way In, by James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen
(respectively president, and financial and administrative officer, of the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and authors of The Game of Life: College
Sports and Educational Values)
- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting -- Fear & Favor 2000: How Power
Shapes the News
- The Brookings Institution Bush v. Gore Web site
- Books recently mentioned on X-Ray Net:
5:06:00 AM
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