Recently I was pondering on the Diaspora project’s one month report, wondering how exactly comments on status updates were being routed. Does the person who owns the status update receive the comment on their seed and potentially have the opportunity to review it before it is broadcast? That seems reasonable. Really, though, the comment belongs [...]
I don’t use Facebook any more. I deleted my account (again) because of my increasing concerns about privacy and information retention and sharing. I’d been visiting the website a lot, posting on my wall at least every couple of days and adding comments much more frequently. Then I went cold turkey. The mental instincts and [...]
I’ve written before about my thoughts on social networking websites and the data you want to give them. What I basically said is that they can do whatever the hell they like with the data provided that I’m keeping a careful watch on what data I give them. If I consciously approve it, it should [...]
A day or two ago I reinstalled Debian on my PC, removing in the process a mostly broken installation of Ubuntu 9 (no, it came like that). In the interest of avoiding the problems usually associated with Linux on the desktop I declined to install an X server. This afternoon I fired it up and [...]
It would be fair to claim that I’ve been a little hypocritical in my darting around the issues regarding Facebook in the last year or two. This is highlighted by the analysis of my behaviour (!) in Jack Scott’s article about why he doesn’t use Facebook. My article discusses some issues identified by Jack so [...]