I’ve been noticing more and more the keen divide between my life led online and my life led in meatspace, and am getting interested in ways to close the gap, especially in public.
I had some laptop stickers printed saying “Hello there. Yes you. Just because I’m using a laptop at this table, that doesn’t mean [...]

I just this minute received a link from a friend on MSN, with no elaboration. She never sends me links, and immediately went offline again. Alarm bells stage 1.
At the link, I am asked to login to my MSN account to continue. Alarm bells stage 2. Here’s a picture of the site:

It helpfully gives no [...]

I’m getting a new kind of spam from Facebook, and unlike the endless notifications, as yet, it can’t be turned off.
For the past 6 months of so, I’ve found Facebook to be a very good, spam free way of keeping in touch with people. On signing up, I liked that pretty much everything there was [...]

Just got back to this NMK article on Twitter. It’s something I watch with interest and don’t participate in. At 27, as a marginal/specialised geek, I find myself in a rather annoying generation: A bunch of my friends are just a little too old and a little too conservative to dabble in new web stuff, [...]

Personal feelings aren’t really what this blog is about, so I stay well away from blogger politics and arguments. However, there’s a spat going on at the moment that I have to weigh in on, because I think the wrong side of it is getting a lot of undeserved sympathy and attention.
This is partly about [...]

I caught wind of this scandal in Eve Online last week. Basically, the developers were accused of cheating and assisting an alliance. I just found out that one of the allegations was true: blueprints were given away, and money was made on them.
A dev named only as t20 came clean, partly to remove suspicion from [...]

I cannot believe how… sensible some things seem to be this year.
Today: Microsoft voice support of OpenID, and Steve Jobs begins to make some quite forceful anti-DRM noises.

Convincing them to license their music to Apple and others DRM-free will create a truly interoperable music marketplace. Apple will embrace this wholeheartedly.

It’s been pointed out in many [...]

This well produced video is a really concise but pithy presentation about web 2.0:

I especially like the use of typos that imply a human source. A quote from the end about the implications of the net:

We’re going to have to rethink copyright authorship identity ethics aesthetics rhetorics governance privacy commerce love family ourselves

Simple, eh? ;)
(Via [...]

Between reading about biometrics and perception, and dealing with art assets for games, it makes sense to me to see everything as data. Especially the physical appearance of people.
I often go through short phases in which I see partial matches for people I know (Being fairly short sighted helps by lending everything an extra level [...]

Hacker con runs arphid tracking (Shorter summary here). Repeat: The difference between surveillance and sousveillance is where the data goes.
(Via Beyond The Beyond)

The primary difference between surveillance and sousveillance is not infrastructural, it’s about whether the data ends up in private or public space.

Some discussions seem to be focussing on infrastructure, but I think this is just a result of present organisational archetypes. Because government is so firmly couched in an institutional model, CCTV is automatically plugged [...]

A short note on the naive looking list in this earlier post and this one:

A reporter recently asked me why kids today have no shame. I told her it was her fault. Media is obsessed with revealing the backstage of people in the public eye – celebrities, politicians, etc. More recently, they’ve created a public [...]

The Surveillance Camera Players are an extreme manifestation of, it seems, the only viable non-apathetic coping strategy in an equiveillant or transparent society. Performing for cameras is the only antidote that safeguards personality rather than destroying it. Not caring who watches, unless it directly negatively impacts on them, is something those who cope will end [...]

I was raised in a virtual police state. An oppressive ARG.
I grew up in a cult derived from Christianity. The kind of garbage I was indoctrinated with as a child and teenager was always mildly stated, but through sheer persistence this is how it generally translates and sets in the minds of followers:
“You are under [...]

I’ve discussed the death of privacy with a few people, and ideas on surviving it tend to cluster around a few things:

Total, unwavering sincerity.
Lack of self deception.
Acceptance of other values.

Those measures sound shockingly naive when typed out like that, and are horribly difficult to put into practice. Nonetheless, I think the future presents us with [...]