We were listening to the Bobby Bones show (it’s Sara’s new favorite morning radio show) on the way to work, when they ran a promo asking people to call in if they ever had or would use a fake name on a date to “protect yourself because it’s so easy for people to find you on [...]
Today I Learned Why Facebook Is Ultimately Doomed
June 13, 2012 By 4 Comments
I’ve been reading a lot lately about why the Facebook boat is destined to sink. Opinions and reasons are as plentiful and varied as the cosplayers at Comic-con (read Matt Silverman (Mashable) and Eric Jackson (Forbes) for two differing yet equally valid opinions), yet for me there can be no greater reason than diminishing user [...]
Stupid Injunction – Privacy Vs Freedom Of Expression
May 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dan Bull released “Stupid Injunction” as a response to the ongoing debate which is currently raging int he UK surrounding the balancing of privacy concerns versus freedom of expression. As the names of public figures alleged to have taken out ultra-restrictive gagging orders continued to circulate freely on Twitter – and newspapers from Spain to Peru [...]
Refining How I Use Facebook
March 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A while back I made the move to set up a Facebook page so that I could lock down my profile and have a single place where I could chat with friends without my “public” stuff flowing over. That has worked out well except that when I share posts from other sites (stuff that probably [...]
See Friendship: Facebook Gets Seriously Creepy
November 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
I logged in to Facebook this morning to post ”Happy Birthday” on the wall of my amazing and wonderful wife, Sara. After I posted I saw a new link next to my post on her wall marked “See Friendship”. I followed the link and was amazed to see a list of basically everything we have [...]
Social Networks Spell The End For Superheroes Secret Identities
October 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If Superman were real do you think that he’d be able to keep his identity hidden in today connected world? Not having his alter ego online could send up a red flag that something is wrong and be almost as much of a risk as having drunk relatives posting stuff about him online. Then you [...]
Podcast: WinExtra On Windows #08 Paul Throws Me Under The Bus
July 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It’s a weekend of celebration but Steven and I forgoed the parties, the drinking, the music, the copious amounts of food and all the socializing, in order to bring you this weeks episode of WinExtra On Windows. We couldn’t go this week without talking about the leaked details for Windows 8 and the death of [...]
That Crash You Hear Is The Death Of Social Networking
May 21, 2010 By 9 Comments
That crash you hear is the death of social networking. Those were the first words out of Sara’s mouth as I read aloud the highlights from the Wall Street Journals “revelations” that Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, Hi5, Xanga and Digg and other social networks were sending personally identifiable information, such as user names and user ID’s [...]
The Problem Is Choice
May 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Realization comes to people in the weirdest of places and just a few moments ago, while standing in the shower attempting to decide which shampoo to use (as I guy, shampoo is shampoo, we don’t care and choice confounds us) I realized why Facebook is in such hot water lately. The issue isn’t privacy, it’s [...]
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