Yet another installment. Much of the last little while has been dominated by FaceHook and its privacy concerns (or lack thereof). Today is no different, but there have been other things going on in the world. Click through to read more.
Category: Links
Links
In the vein of getting out links more often, and in the hopes that you’ll be able to follow more of the links, here’s another installment:
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Long Overdue Links
It’s not that I haven’t been reading … I just haven’t been doing any gathering together of my links. So, all these have been sitting in my reader, awaiting an hour of free time to categorize. There are quite a few (OK, like 225), some of which are probably a bit stale (the Facebook stuff, for instance, just keeps on going – the Energizer Bunny of violating your privacy). I’ve collected them for your enjoyment, though, and there’s not one in there which wasn’t a valuable read. Of course, my interests may be different than yours. But, if you must just choose one thing to read right now, choose this article on how computers (and data) help you to make the wrong decisions: Computer Says No. And here I thought I was alone in saying that people aren’t rational.
Links
Links today contain quite a few of interest. I was most interested to see an article on the need for digital archives and curation (Deluge of Scientific Data Needs to Be Curated for Long-Term Use). The fact that it came out via the Association for Computing Machinery was what caught my attention. Always nice to see that one’s field is important to the larger world.
The other thing which was particularly applicable to me was the cartoon above. I wonder, as I try to get my survey participation up, whether I’m subject to the phenomenon of only getting people who like to take surveys’ input. If you’re from the US, the British Isles, or Canada, and use a different computer at home than you do at work, and don’t like surveys, feel free to come take mine!
Links
Yet another backlog of links which I’ve found significant.
Links
Once again, links! A week’s worth of the stuff that I thought you’d be interested in (or that you should be interested in). Enjoy!
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Links
You know, it’s been a terribly long time since I’ve posted my “links” up here. I apologize, but plead Holidays!. Now that we’re back in Glasgow, and our noses back at the grindstone, here’re all of my links for the past 6 or 7 weeks. There’s quite a lot in here, and I hate to point one thing out as a “must read,” but if you read nothing else, you should take a look at The Battle to Preserve an Old Accelerator’s Data. It’s important for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it points up some of the central issues in digital preservation. Of interest to me, though, is that the information gathered during the course of the accelerator’s use has been preserved … but that the scientists’ “private” data was destroyed, resulting in an inability to duplicate the actual research which took place. Give it a read and you’ll see why I’m interested in this field, perhaps. That article works hand-in-hand with an article from EFF: Putting the “Public” In Publicly-Funded Research. And, I could go on and on about all the rest of the links, here, but I hope you take the time to settle in for some good reading, in the true spirit of an old-style, links-driven blog.
Links
And, for your reading enjoyment, more links! Before we go there, though, have any of you thought about Location Privacy? I know that I have, but had never really considered that Firefox would be so backwards that it would go out of its way to reveal my location. OK, yeah, sure: if I’m looking for a pizza, it’s probably easier if Google knows where I am, physically. Why, though, should anybody else know? And ought I not be asked, prior to this information being divulged?
If you wish to change this behavior, you have to go into Firefox, enter about:config into the URL box, and change the geo.enabled setting. It’s only available this way, not via any tools/options menu or anything. Painful. Here’s what firefox has to say about it all. Doesn’t inspire me, much.
Links
And: still more links. Click the thing to see the things.
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Links
And, another few weeks’ worth of linkeage. Enjoy!