Posts in: Internet life
- Faux internet identities as fraud?
- Thomas Mrozak, a spokesman for the United States attorney here, declined Wednesday to confirm that the office had issued subpoenas. The Los Angeles Times, citing unnamed sources, reported that the investigation would determine if the creation of a fake identity to harass the 13-year-old, Megan Meier, could be considered Internet fraud under federal statutes. (Emphasis mine.) [...] [10 Jan 2008]
- Recommended: Anil Dash’s ‘Google and Theory of Mind’
- Anil analyzes Google’s Knol product and suggests that Google may be dancing awfully close to the ‘evil’ line. Two points to think about: Theory of mind is the awareness that others are aware, and its absence is the weakness that Google doesn’t know it has. This shortcoming exists at a deep cultural level within the organization, and [...] [14 Dec 2007]
- Buzzword.com: Flash-based online word processor
- It’s old news that web-based word processing applications are sprouting up all over the web. There’s Google Docs, Zoho Writer, ThinkFree and gOffice among others. View larger version One of the most recent entrants to this fairly crowded field, is Buzzword by Virtual Ubiquity, which was recently acquired by Adobe. I tested Buzzword using Firefox 2.0.0.10 and Camino [...] [29 Nov 2007]
- What goes around comes around: The case of Megan Meier
- I confess: the Internet scares me. The erasure of semi-private local spaces and the rise of internet vigilantism is a frightening thing. We’re rapidly removing our ability to escape and outgrow our pasts and I’m not sure of how well or how quickly we’ll adopt the idea that everyone has at least one honkingly huge [...] [21 Nov 2007]
- Recommended: “The Big Juicy Twitter Guide”
- If you’re a Twitter-phile like myself, you don’t need to be convinced of the service’s value. But just in case you need to convince someone else, Caroline Middlebrook’s series The Big Juicy Twitter Guide is an excellent resource. In it, Middlebrook covers everything you would need to know before getting started with Twitter: etiquette, branding, tools, [...] [6 Nov 2007]
- Recommended: Jeremy Keith’s “Lock up your data”
- You’ll need to read the Flickr forum thread for some context regarding Jeremy’s post, but Jeremy’s point is a good one: As sites like Flickr and Last.fm move from having early adopters into the mainstream, this issue becomes more important. What isn’t clear is how the moral responsibility should be distributed. Should Flickr provide clearer [...] [5 Oct 2007]
