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

I judge you: A social networks commentary

Everywhere you go, there are people talking about social networks. Why is this, you may ask? There have always been social networks using things like human voice, postal mail, telephones, business cards, and I suppose it hasn’t been as easy to profit from them indirectly until recently.

When people talk about risks of social networking, and they’re [...]

August 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Information Security, Technology | Leave a comment

Big Tech Wins: Addressbooks

I find that the best and most immediate use of personal technology for most people is in personal communications.

For example, I did not have an organized and comprehensive set of contacts until this last year. I had one previously in the glory days of the Palm Desktop and Handspring, back [...]

February 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Business, Internet, Phones, Technology | One comment