If nothing else good comes out of all of the recent controversial privacy breeches and vulnerabilities on social networking sites, I’m glad to see that they have at least spurred increased discussion of the related issues.

I think that’s a very good thing, because it seems to me that much of the “discussion” up until now has been mostly a one-sided, self-serving soliloquy from the social networking sites — sites that [more...]

Sometimes, it seems like, no matter how many times this type of thing happens, and no matter how egregious the events are, many people choose to either ignore them or downplay their significance.

Especially those who have either allowed or caused them to happen.

But something just happened that I think is incredibly important [more...]

Ah-ha! I can tell that you’ve visited this site before!

In fact, you’ve been here several times before.

Do you want me to tell you exactly what days and times you were here, and exactly which of this site’s links you clicked on, and exactly which of this site’s pages you visited? [more...]

In what I’m sure is going to turn out to be a very controversial move, “…CNN’s Anderson Cooper (has) reported that, from now on, there is a new rule in effect, which de facto bars photographers from coming within 65 feet of any deployed boom or response vessel around Deepwater Horizon… out on the water or on beaches.” [more...]

Personally, I have no interest in “social networking” sites. My Web sites give me plenty of opportunity to express myelf, and I have enough in-person, over-the-phone, and email friends that I’m not looking for more.

But I can understand how a lot of people who either don’t know how to — or don’t [more...]