Failing again. Failing better.
For the month of January, I gave up social media. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram. Here’s what the experiment was like. Warning: long post ahead. And it may come of as annoying and pretentious as someone saying, “I don’t even own a TV.” I’m not trying to say I’m better than anyone or that…
For those of you who follow me on Facebook, you’ll know my cover image is me, sitting on the sofa asleep, with Anna asleep on my chest. I was just thinking today about how she doesn’t do that anymore. Turns out I was wrong. She did that tonight. Apparently, the secret is she has to…
News outlets today are abuzz about the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) TOP SECRET PRISM program that allegedly had direct access to Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and other big internet companies. The story goes that it’s sweeping up a ton of data for national security purposes. People are very concerned not only about the broad nature of…
Yesterday I noticed that my unique visitors and page views had skyrocketed over the past few days. Great, right? Well, no, not exactly. The numbers were falsely inflated due to some double counting. It also meant a big influx of spam. It looks like the heart of the matter was the Facebook “Send” button at…
Today, Bruce Schneier linked to a story about Max Schrems’s response to discovering exactly what data Facebook is collecting about him. Schrems, a 24-year old law student in Vienna, was shocked to find that Facebook had the equivalent of 1,200 pages of data on him, covering 57 categories. Because Facebook has a headquarters in Dublin,…