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Digital divide, online marketing and privacy , by GREG NEICHIN

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:32:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My favorite sentence here is "I am happy to live my life as an open book... and I hope that others will follow"

Clip Source: perpetualmotion.wordpress.com

1. We, the user, must regain our primacy in technological interactions

As a user we are always aware of the man-machine divide.

I, for one, am tired of this divide. I want technology-enabled information everywhere and yet nowhere.

We are at the end of online marketing as a distinct subclass of the marketing world

3. We, the people, must reveal ourselves and trust that it will be beneficial

The marketers referenced above are not going to have a complete picture of us, the consumer, until we willfully and proactively give them permission to compile that picture. In order to do so, we will need to be assured of privacy, respect, and return on our “preferences investment”.

I am happy to live my life as an open book (hence my affinity for blogging) and I hope that others will follow. I think that the freedom for perpetual and continuous expression is a world changing idea that can be a force for an era of unparalleled cooperative individuality.

Tags: technology, cyber culture, marketing, privacy, blogging, blogpost, growth, usability

Support the net-neutrality act

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:26:22 GMT

clipped by: eyalnow

Clip Source: www.savetheinternet.com

Net Neutrality ensures that all users can access the content or run the applications and devices of their choice. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data — not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service. Net Neutrality prevents the companies that control the wires from discriminating against content based on its source or ownership.

Who wants to get rid of Net Neutrality?

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner — want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.

In April, Time Warner's AOL blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com — an advocacy campaign opposing the company's pay-to-send e-mail scheme.

But without Net Neutrality, the Internet will look more like cable TV. Network owners will decide which channels, content and applications are available; consumers will have to choose from their menu.

Tags: activism, politics, privacy, netneutrality, censorship, congress, culture, freedom, internet, law, media

"Your life in the public domain" by Nick Miller at theage

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:28:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The hyper-connected internet is exposing our private lives - and all their embarrassing details - to the world at large

Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

If you have anything to do with the internet, you leave fingerprints on almost everything you touch. Those who know what they are looking for will be able to know you almost better than you know yourself.

Once online, personal information is almost impossible to delete.

Even online pseudonyms are a flimsy veil.

personal revelation is the unspoken quid pro quo for using the social networking sites that are hugely popular among young people. "Users understand that privacy is important," he says. "But they also understand that letting go of privacy is important if you want to play the game. You can't get very far in online communities if you don't make at least some information available."

last year AOL released supposedly anonymous data about the web searches of 658,000 subscribers. Many could easily be identified: the words people Google the most, for example, are usually their own name.

Tags: security, privacy, identity, identity theft, infosec, search engines, ebay, blogpost, identity management, hacking, wireless, socialweb

Apple's new iPod Pea - by Michael Eakes

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:00:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.eakes.org

Apple has finally managed to reduce their popular MP3 player to a size that barely accommodates its own headphone jack.

Solid-state engineers at Apple achieved a design breakthrough. The miracle is a new kind of spherical flash-RAM chip, storing 1 gigabyte or up to 240 songs.

Nearly 1/1000th the size of the original iPod, the new iPod pea is an eighth of a cubic centimeter and weighs in at just over 0.2 grams. There are no clips, displays, or buttons. The pea runs in a "permashuffle" mode.

Songs are loaded via bluetooth, and the pea charges its battery as long as it is within three feet of the PeaPod. Charging is made possible by a long-ridiculed (until-now) power broadcasting technique originally devised by Serb-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

Apple admits it originally named the product "iPea", but changed the name after test-group participants were unable to "wipe that smirk off their faces."

Tags: apple, ipod, consumerism, marketing, fun, funny, gadget

Albert Einstein's Quotes

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:25:22 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: rescomp.stanford.edu

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

Tags: einstein, quotes, people, life, humor

Small is the new big by Seth Godin

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:54:45 GMT

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Clip Source: sethgodin.typepad.com

Enron (big) got audited by Andersen (big) and failed (big.) The World Trade Center was a target. TV advertising is collapsing so fast you can hear it. American Airlines (big) is getting creamed by Jet Blue (think small). BoingBoing (four people) has a readership growing a hundred times faster than the New Yorker (hundreds of people).

Today, Craigslist (18 employees) is the fourth most visited site according to some measures. They are partly owned by eBay (more than 4,000 employees) which hopes to stay in the same league, traffic-wise. They’re certainly not growing nearly as fast.

Small is the new big only when the person running the small thinks big.

Don’t wait. Get small. Think big.

Tags: marketing, neweconomy, inspiring, blogpost, business

I bought votes on Digg- By Annalee Newitz at Wired

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:32:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I say:
more members make a better system
Hide a members' diggs ? - only for new members

Related to "herding the mob"
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/58E4A13C-0675-492E-9309-C77094DAF3CA/

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Ultimately, however, my story did get buried. If you search for it on Digg, you won't find it unless you check the box that says "also search for buried stories." This didn't happen because the Digg operators have brilliant algorithms, however -- it happened because many people in the Digg community recognized that my blog was stupid. Despite the fact that it was rapidly becoming popular, many commenters questioned my story's legitimacy. Digg's system works only so long as the crowds on Digg can be trusted.

Whether they can be trusted in the long term remains to be seen, given the incentives built into the system for voting on the most popular stories. Moreover, the lack of user privacy on Digg makes buying votes easy.

"We find it interesting that Digg still allows anybody to view any user's diggs," U/S told me in an e-mail.

Tags: excerpt, crowdhacking, digg, social bookmarking, delicious, wired, scamming

Herding the mob - Crowdhacking the rating systems - By Annalee Newitz at Wired

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:38:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From the 2nd page:
So we have an arms race: the crowd-hackers manipulating eBay and Yahoo and Digg and del.icio.us versus the crowd defenders — developers and other users who scrub scams out of the system. The University of Michigan’s Resnick is optimistic that the good guys will prevail, so long as they continue to build algorithms that smoke out the cheaters. “A good reputation system makes people more trustworthy,” Resnick says, “because word gets around if they’re not.”

Clip Source: www.wired.com

as rating systems have become more popular — and, as Resnick shows, valuable — there has been what some would say is a predictable response: the emergence of scammers, spammers, and thieves bent on manipulating the mob. Call it crowdhacking.

In some cases, crowdhackers are looking to boost sales or increase traffic to their Web sites. In other instances, they’re simply ripping off unsuspecting consumers. Either way, the more we base decisions on the wisdom of crowds, the greater the incentive to cheat.

Tags: crowdhacking, digg, social bookmarking, delicious, wired, ebay, reddit, scamming

Top 8 inspirational quotes

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:47:11 GMT

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Clip Source: quotations.about.com

1) Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

2) Luigi Pirandello

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

3) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

4) Zig Ziglar

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

5) T. S. Elliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

6) Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

7) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

8) Peter F. Drucker

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Tags: quotes, people, life, inspiration, love

How did Dow computer systems handle February 27 downturn? - by Andy Oram

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:09:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.oreillynet.com

Wednesday February 28, 2007

In the financial world, the big news today is the worldwide drop in stock prices, including the worst performance in the United States since the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. But there seems to be an interesting computer story too. During the tense afternoon in the U.S., Dow computers fell behind and failed to reflect the full extent of stock declines.

When we hear more about the computer systems, it may provide lessons for emergency management in a number of areas, including local and national government responses to disasters. The incident shows that information systems are at their most strained–and in the hardest ways to anticipate–just at the times when the public asks the most from them, and needs information most urgently.

Tags: cip, it, security, infosec, availability, contingency, opinion, blogpost

"Creating our own happiness "by Wayne Coyne

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:10:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: re-wording of the law of attraction

Clip Source: www.npr.org

I believe we have the power to create our own happiness. I believe the real magic in the world is done by humans. I believe normal life is extraordinary.

You know when a single moment feels like an hour? Well, in that moment, I realized I had assumed this couple needed my pity, but they didn't. I assumed things were all bad for them, but they weren't. And I understood we all have the power to make moments of happiness happen.

I believe this is something all of us can do: Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves. This I believe.

Tags: happiness, personaldevelopment, growth, inspiring, inspiration

Mind-mapping using tablet-pc

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:42:35 GMT

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Clip Source: headrush.typepad.com

I could not live without mind maps.

The main reason I do it this way is because when you use a linear format rather than pieces radiating out from the center, the brain imposes a hierarchical structure on the content, regardless of whether one was intended. And this matters. It changes, even if subtly, the way you process and understand the material. Another thing mindmaps let you do is make connections between different nodes; something that's especially hard (or impossible) to do with linear notes.

a lot of people take notes on their laptops!

That meant, however, that there was a serious mismatch between what they were being asked to do-- fill out mind maps-- vs. what they could do--type linear notes into a text editor or outliner.

You can see things with a mind map that you simply won't see with a hierarchical top-down representation.

There are some instructions on getting started here and here, but a quick Google search should tell you everything.

Tags: minmap, productivity, pim, pkm, lifehack

The real secret to a successful blog/book/business...

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:11:02 GMT

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Clip Source: headrush.typepad.com

The real secret to a successful blog/book/business...

The secret is simply this: you have a much better chance for success when your business model makes what's good for the users match what's good for the business, and vice-versa. Our books are best-sellers not because we're better authors or teachers (a meritocracy), but because they were literally labors of love. We wrote them with one very clear goal:

ask the question we keep bringing up here, "What will this help the user do?" Not, "How can we make a great product?" Nobody cares about your company, and nobody cares about your product. Not really. They care about themselves in relation to your product. What it means to them. What it does for them. What it says about them that they use your product or believe in your company. You're still just the delivery guy, and your package helps the user kick ass at something. However, when you DO have a product that truly helps the user, they might just love you for it.

Tags: crm, business, advice, marketing, sales

The Perfect Tagging UI - by Yaniv Golan (Yedda.com CEO)

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:27:39 GMT

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Clip Source: yanivg.blogspot.com

The Perfect Tagging UI

Clearly mark the tag boundaries

Support copy and paste of tags

Auto-complete

Auto-suggest

No hierarchy, classification, or anything else that disrupts the cognitive process

Ability to edit tags like text

Search previously tagged items with an already-typed tag without disrupting the tagging

Enough whining. I'm going to try to be constructive by listing what are the behaviors that will make me fall in love with a tagging thingie:

Tags: tag, tagging, webdev, webdesign, delicious, web2.0, standards

Effective marketing - surprise

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:23:57 GMT

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Clip Source: sethgodin.typepad.com

if you want the word to spread, if you expect me to take action I've never taken before, it seems to me that you need to do something that hasn't been done before. It might not feel safe, but if you do the safe thing, I guarantee you won't surprise anyone. And if you don't surprise anyone, the word isn't going to spread.

Tags: marketing, advertising, advice