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2008 Word of the Year: Overshare

Posted in blogosphere, free speech, internets, social networking by Tony on 18 December 08

[tip via Michael Zimmer]

Obama, YouTube, and Privacy

Posted in politics, privacy, social networking, surveillance by Tony on 8 December 08

You know how Obama is “bringin’ it to the people” via those Fireside Chat 2.0 things on YouTube? Well, besides it maybe kind of sort of being totally unfair (the addresses are uploaded to YouTube, MSN, and Yahoo!, giving smaller video hosting sights no respect and also placing the burden of bandwidth onto, mostly, YouTube, as the video on the change.gov site is embedded from there), it also presents some major privacy risks…

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