Archive for July, 2008

Cory Doctorow on the politics of privacy

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Published on July 28, 2008 in Culture, Future, Literacies and Technology. 2 Comments Print This Post Email This Post

Author Cory Doctorow talks about privacy and technology and “what’s at stake if the persistent erosion of privacy continues unchecked.” Doctorow’s talk is part of a panel presented by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom at ALA’s 2008 Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. (via Boing Boing)

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Lively: Google gone wild

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Published on July 13, 2008 in Virtual Worlds. 7 Comments Print This Post Email This Post

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My avatar and my private Lively room

Next to iPhone mania, Google’s Lively generated the greatest amount of buzz in my little corner of the social media universe this weekend. I got my first view via friends Flickr galleries, which conveyed a lot about their apparent demographic.

In a nutshell, Lively is a virtual world - similar to Second Life- where you can do the following things (from the Google description):

  • Create your own virtual space
  • Chat and interact with your friends in rooms you design
  • Express yourself through gestures, sounds and chat
  • Customize your avatar and stream personal photos and video
  • Add your room to your site
  • Invite your friends to chat and help decorate

Sadly, Lively is a Windows-only world (Vista/XP), which resulted in several of my mac loving friends unable to join me inworld. And while Lively was easy to install and fairly simple to navigate, my experiences so far were not entirely fun.

Here are my first impressions - with hopes that Lively becomes something a little bit more than a noisy mess.

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Survey: Who am I this time?

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Published on July 1, 2008 in Social Media and Surveys. 4 Comments Print This Post Email This Post

“More employers are looking online to learn about their employees. Some people are putting sensitive personal information on Web sites, such as myspace.com and friendster.com. And some employers are watching.”
- NPR’s Steve Inskeep

As a webby college instructor teaching industry-focused courses I am frequently confronted with the challenge of explaining online reputation issues to students who have been generating online content since they were in high school. Their challenges are unlike any other generation.

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