When Google+ launched, I went with my handle as my last name. This makes a ton of sense to me. If you asked most people what my last name is, they wouldn’t know. It isn’t “common” for me. Many people don’t even seem to know my first name. I can’t tell you how many times […]
When to share your real name? Blizzard and their Real ID plans.
I was recently CCed in a tweet referencing this article “Why Real ID is a Really Bad Idea“about World of Warcraft implementing their version of a “Real ID” in a way that violated the trust of its users. The woman writing the article is very clear on the identity “creep” that happened and got to the […]
Identity Dispute on Twitter
From Slashdot SpuriousLogic spotted this story on the BBC, from which he excerpts: “The High Court has given permission for an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter. The order is to be served against an unknown Twitter user who anonymously posts to the site using the same name as a right-wing political blogger. […]
Thomas Friedman on the lesson from Van Jones – "Watch out for the participatory panopticon"
Thomas Friedman of the NYTimes on Meet the Press today talking about several recent incidents including what happened to Van Jones. When everyone has a cell phone, everyone is a photographer, when everyone has access to YouTube, everyone is a filmmaker, and when everyone is a blogger everyone is a newspaper. When everyone is a […]
Participatory Panopticon strikes Michael Phelps
I have written about the participatory panopticon before (we live in public, sousveilance, cia torture taxi’s, Jamais Casio @ accelerating change, Condi caught) – but more in the abstract about stories in the news. This is the Huffington Post article about the photo of michael phelps. This story strikes more close to home. I was, […]
Why I don't trust telco's
This Horror story is why I don’t trust telco’s AT ALL. ($3000 bill for the iPhone) I am very willing to pay reasonable price for reasonable service. I am not sure why this is hard for them to GRASP but being raked over the coals. THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE getting into the spectrum auction and […]
Yet another contact service.
I got an invitation to SpokeIn touch yesterday. This is “the open network for business people” What I didn’t get was how it was any different then any other ‘stay in touch’ thing like Plaxo (which I don’t use). In fact I am not going to use anything in this genre until they are using […]
Sex offender mixup on MySpace and AmeriTrade Spam
Last week there were some interesting identity developments. summary: Ms. Jessica Davis had her Myspace profile eliminated because it matched a name in a sex offender database. She tried to resolve it with Myspace but they were very unhelpful. She went to the press after learning about a new information sharing agreement between MySpace and […]
Freedom of Speech Seriously Threatened.
Some highlights from this Blog speak for itself. (I didn’t have time to do all the linking from the quotes so click through to get them. The U.S. Government wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress in the latest astounding attack on the internet and […]