Although large number of scientists work on assuring our privacy if we care to keep it and be careful about it, their work is like the weather; everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.

Be more careful and pray for your privacy to be private.

Love Notorious’s description of guest-blogging as people offering to live in our houses rent-free. Even my horses contribute something to their upkeep, and the cats keep the mice out of the house and barn.

While I occasionally accept them, it usually means “hey want to provide content for our website/blog for free?” It’s fun when they come from advocacy groups who have paid employees. It’s like, “how about hire me and I’ll write for you all the time.”

I was wondering when I read about this this morning, what about all these entities (like our own departments, in some cases) that are signing up to be e-friended with all of the compliant insecurity of an adolescent? What corpocratic information are we “giving up” in these instances? These departmental-level decisions are often made at well below customary “governance” levels of process, while many of us clueless technoskeptics are just snorting and leaning on the “delete” button.

I’ve never “gotten” fb or twit either. In what universe could I possibly care what someone had for breakfast?

As far as I can tell, the only downside has been that I do not get invited to departmental functions if my colleagues cannot just include me on a FB invite.