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On Privacy, Facebook & your Digital Footprints
Issues about privacy and Facebook have been in the news a great deal recently, but one of the implicit but less discussed issues is the notion of your digital footprint. Your digital footpint simply means the unintended effects digital communication will have in the future since it’s simultaneously digital content (and thus potentially lasts forever). Earlier this week I was interviewed by Jarrod Watt for ABC’s Heywire and you can listen to the what I said here. If you prefer you go straight to the mp3 recording, or listen here …
[audio:http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/drtamaleaver_heywire.mp3]Merton Speaks.
Mashable have managed to track down and interview the mysterious Merton, the guy behind that wonderful Chatroulette Piano Improv video:
Merton seems like a nice enough guy, who genuinely seems taken aback with how viral the video went. This interview also reminds me about the perils of writing about things happening today on the web; in the next issue of Flow I’ll have a column called ‘How Chatroulette Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About the Internet’ which discusses the Merton and Ben Folds, but already be a little out-of-date since it doesn’t refer to this interview. *hmph*
Chatroulette = Web R&D
I submit this video as evidence (a) the Chatroulette is not the work of the devil and (b) it’s probably the heart of cool R&D on the web today:
Go on, watch, it’’ll make you smile and is 100% free of visible genitals.
State of the Internet (in 4 minutes …)
As I welcome 300 students into Web Communications 101 at Curtin University today (both on-campus and via Open Universities Australia), my mind is already wandering to lectures and finding engaging ways to present the material. With that in mind, there are some nice infographics in this 4 minute video by Jesse Thomas which gives a wrap-up of the ‘State of the Internet’ (a la 2009):
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
Of course, 2009 internet stats are already getting dated, but the video is very pretty! 🙂
The Evolution of Remix Culture
A fantastic little video which looks at the way remix culture work as a relationship between social interaction and media manipulation (and, of course, a little bit about why some copyright rules inhibit this):
Social Media Count
Gary Hayes from Personalize Media has created this nifty (embeddable) widget which shows show social media activity for this time it’s displayed:
It’ll be a great teaching tool and can you can grab it here (along with some background on the way the stats are generated).
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