Privacy and Social Media – Part II: Foursquare
This is part of my ongoing series in social media privacy, please read the exciting introduction here. 1. Introduction 2. Foursquare 3. Facebook updated 5/6/2010 4. Twitter – coming soon. Foursquare Let me start by saying since this application relates to my personal, physical location, I am a bit more careful about who I share that information with. First, I only friend people I actually know, so letting them see my phone number and email is both helpful and beneficial. Second, I do check the “see the links to my Twitter and Facebook”. However, I only have my twitter feed linked as that’s something the “people” can see (not just the friends I specify). I keep my Twitter as anoynomus as practical, but my Facebook account has everything about me. If I want to keep some information private on Foursquare it would do me no service to instead just give… Read More »
Privacy and Social Media – Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction 2. Foursquare 3. Facebook updated 5/6/2010 4. Twitter – coming soon. Keeping your life private, while still enjoying the benefits of social media, is a delicate balance. You don’t want to say too much and “over share” or say too little and not get the benefits of the application. However, very few people really understand how to control their online presence. There has been lots of discussion about how to control/privatize your online presence (here, here and even here). Security Education: Regardless of all the information available out there in the blogosphere, I still end up educating my friends and family about privacy whenever the subject comes up. Remember, people like us read those blogs not people like them. They are sometimes blissfully unaware of the volume of information available online about them, how easy it is to get at it, and the consequences. Haven’t you ever Googled… Read More »
Food for thought…a wandering down future lane.
I’ve recently been working my way through Terry Goodkind’s, Sword of Truth series on audio book. Great series, I highly recommend it. The audio book version I have was digitized from the original cassette tapes (don’t worry I’m not lugging around a cassette player, I gave that up two years ago) and this morning I took note of something really interesting about them. Although my recordings are .mp3s they still have the original cassette tape intros and outros still present. Part of the intro to each “cassette tape” is the narrator stating the recordings Library of Congress’ RC number, “RC41067″, page count (573) and the number of cassette sides (21) it covers. Cataloging Yesterday and Today: Where am I going with this? Well, other than the obvious kitsch value, think about how these cassettes might have been cataloged. You would assume the cataloger would have recorded that the audio recording… Read More »
Upcoming Talks…
Henry Stewart: Digital Asset Management New York Hilton NY, May 20-21, 2010 “The Art and Practice of Managing Digital Media ” New York Archives Conference Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, June 2-4, 2010 Presentation Title: It works, but is it usable? Usability and DAMS In 2009, the Metropolitan Museum of Art attempted to determine whether its current Digital Asset Management (DAM) system could be re-engineered to increase overall user acceptance. The approach was to use best practices from information science and user-experience to guide the process of needs discovery and analysis. This talk will outline Nielsen’s usability heuristics which were used as a means of application evaluation and as a reporting framework for the study. Examples from the user study will be used as a means to illustrate these heuristic principles. You can download my presentation here.
