Wednesday
Facebook owns everything you say
There are many problems with Facebook's policy of "trust us":
1. Facebook could go bankrupt, and creditors might find the data Facebook has stored up to be one of its most valuable assets. These creditors might want to use the data in new and different ways than Facebook has. No company likes to contemplate its demise, so of course, Facebook probably isn't concerned about what happens in the event it dies -- after all, it would be gone and wouldn't have to deal with any public relations headache or other troubles created by angry consumers.
2. The government can obtain data maintained by third parties very easily -- with just a subpoena in most cases. So despite Zuckerberg's promise that "we wouldn't share your information in a way you wouldn't want," Facebook would have no choice in many instances but to do so.
3. In the past, Facebook has shared people's information in ways they didn't want. The privacy dust ups created by News Feeds, Beacon, and Social Ads are some examples. In the future, there's no guarantee that Facebook will never use data in ways people don't want.
Read the full article about the recent changes (and subsequent reversion) to Facebook's terms of service agreement.
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Tuesday
blog.listsanddiagrams
I have a new blog, it is located at blog.listsanddiagrams.com. I will update this blog for a while, then I won't.
It's a tumblr blog, using a theme made by Justin Ouellette, who is responsible for Muxtape and I Hardly Know Her.
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Saturday
And That's The Way It Is
No blogging recently, I've been working an 80 hour week. This should hopefully more than make up for it.
Links from kottke.
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Sunday
Goddamn heat!
Killed my tomato plant in one day! That's not cool, Mr. Sun.
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Sunday
Beaches at Laneway
Not really a laneway, is it? It's a lot bigger and a very different
festival to the one I went to two years ago, but still fucking fun.
Seen so far:
Tame Impala
Beaches
Emily Ulman
Still to come:
Jay Reatard
No Age
My Disco
Four Tet
Architecture in Helsinki
Girl Talk
Schedule clashes mean missing out on:
Pivot
El Guincho
Buraka Som Sistema
Mountains In The Sky
I am so glad I am at Laneway and not somewhere boring like an office
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