Communicating in a networked world
In my teens, on two different occasions, I spent a few months living in each of two countries (outside my native US), learning the predominant language and picking up the culture. Every once in a while it smacks me in the face that this makes me … [Continue reading]
I've been playing with electronic picture frames for almost two years. I started with a Ceiva frame two years ago, because it was capable of placing a phone call (modem) to pick up photos, and this frame was for a relative who doesn’t have access to … [Continue reading]
I still like black. Dress mostly in black. (White hair, of course.) But I just got tired, this week, of how dark my blog theme was. So I put a nice photo from Paris behind the blog’s business area and I think it looks spiffier now. Also, this gave me … [Continue reading]
There was a comment by Julia Angwin in the Wall Street Journal about how Facebook may make “friending” obsolete through its policy of making your friend list public. At first, a couple of days ago when I learned that my friend list was irretrievably … [Continue reading]
Facebook has opened up our individual Facebook profiles so that we have no way to restrict certain pieces of information, such as who our friends are, which are now publicly available. EPIC—the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and nine other … [Continue reading]