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Theme : privacy
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PR students: you are what you blog
Interesting take on the privacy/transparency question around the internet and people's pasts.
This one suggests that companies may make a virtue of this - giving individuals opportunities to create a 'google-trail' of positive achievements link to company brands.
from : duncanoleary
4th December 2006
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Scatterbox by Steven Silvers: Transparent Generation realizes downside to growing up online.
"Call them The Transparent Generation.
They're the first true children of the hyperconnected information age, and they were using the Internet before they could write cursive. Now they're starting to graduate college, ready to launch their careers as responsible, tax-paying young adults.
And many of them are waking up to a nagging concern about their online trail... all created way they ever thought they might be Googled by a potential boss."
from : duncanoleary
4th December 2006
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On the Internet, everybody knows you're a dog. - By Michael Kinsley - Slate Magazine
"anonymity does not actually seem to interest many of the Web's most devoted users. They are the ones who start their own sites, or sign up for MySpace, or submit videos to YouTube. Quite the opposite: The most successful Web sites seem to be those where people can abandon anonymity and use the Internet to stake their claims as unique individuals."
from : duncanoleary
4th December 2006
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The Long Tail: Remember when diaries were secret?
'Something big changed over the past decade as a long trend of diminished privacy suddenly flipped to radical transparency...Today, that diary has become a MySpace page and the secret crush is the guy draped over the keg on her Facebook gallery'
from : duncanoleary
4th December 2006
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I know what you did last summer
As useful as Google is, I think it might have some interesting effects on the recruitment decisions of the future – something we are looking at here.
from : duncanoleary
1st December 2006
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A world without Google | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Google-stalking: Thanks to Google, it's not only easy, but perfectly acceptable to rummage around in the lives of ex-boyfriends, upcoming blind dates, long-lost acquaintances and perfect strangers.
from : duncanoleary
29th November 2006
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Are you thinking what we're thinking?
Summer at the Greenhouse means lots of new ideas and projects we can't wait to get kicked off. Right now our thinking is developing across all of our 6 programmes, and we are planning projects on issues from relationships and happiness, security and privacy, to music, and social enterprise. Check out the overview for more details, or email me at niamh.gallagher@demos.co.ukWe want to know what YOU think of our ideas, so login and let us know.
from : niamhgallagher
14th August 2006
