By happy coincidence, just as I posted about the Privacy Manifesto for Web 2.0, I found Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja’s article saying that privacy laws have failed to keep up with the information revolution.
Send the wife in first, eh Thaksin?
Perhaps my Prediction number 6 for 2008 won’t come true. The wife of former Thai president Thaksin Shinawatra, returned to Bangkok yesterday and was immediately taken to the Supreme Court to face corruption charges. Pojaman Shinawatra, 51, was charged with using her husband’s influence to buy real estate at one-third its value. She was released on bail of 5 million baht ($171,400) and ordered not to leave the country.
Mainstream Media
Check this great little TV advert for “the mainstream media”. Amusing. Hat tip to Peter Black.
Are you someone’s user-generated content?
Brian Clark has published an excellent piece which explains why I prefer to publish things here, on my own website, rather that on my Facebook profile. Worth reading in its entirety, but it concludes: “Valuable content on a site you own is a classic win-win for readers and the site owner, while publishing on Facebook is a lopsided relationship that favors Zuckerberg and his data-hoarding cronies. While I think social networking is useful in small quantities, I’ve no interest in becoming someone’s user-generated content, especially at the expense of my privacy.”
Deconstructing Stephen Conroy, peddler of filters
Further to my post about Internet filtering plans by the federal government, Jon Seymour has beautifully deconstructed Senator Conroy’s announcement.
How many identities do you have?
Do you have One True Identity? Or are you a federation of different identities for different occasions? Stephen Wilson argues that we may be in the midst of a true paradigm shift away from one true identity to a new worldview based on a plurality of identities.