Public and Private

In this brave new internet world (as of about 1995), I’ve been thinking of my personal information sharing generally as public and private.

Information Classification

Because of my work, classifying information comes as second nature. I have two separate and non-intersecting information streams. You are reading part of one of them.

100% of the talk about people on social [...]

February 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Biographical, Internet | Leave a comment

New Nettiqute: A simple guide to communicating with your favorite geeks.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen an updated guide on email etiquette or netiquette in general.

This may be because there is about 300 guides written by out of work journalists whose’ exposure to technology was having played with an iPhone for about 5 minutes. I believe that they’re in the same place in my [...]

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Internet | 4 comments

Facebook sharing feature

See? It’s not all bad. Suddenly they can be a posting platform with variable sharing controls on each piece of content.

Someone has got to find this useful, I’m sure. Oh wait. It’s the internet. They’ll just complain. Nevermind.

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December 14th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Internet | One comment

New Facebook private features

Facebook has a worthwhile privacy improvement today. It’s nice to see social networks giving some configurability of granular access to the information that users make available there.

One thing that is not obvious is how to block limited users from information that you would rather not share for whatever reason. The “Limited Profile” blocking is non-intuitive, so [...]

March 19th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Internet | Leave a comment