vIdentity

Listen (MP3) to Danah Boyd! She speaks with Berkman Luncheon about her research and work on social networks and – as you know – there’s no better way to search for identity as in social networks!

Read the full article here

via netzpolitik.org

Today I was trying out 30boxes, because someone told me it is much better than Google Calendar. I typed in my email, username to subscribe and wondered.

Suddenly it knews my twitter-acoount, my flickr-photos and myspace blog. Furthermore it provides me with a picture of me, the one I have on twitter.

The good thing is, I do not have to retype all those informations…

With a special ARTE broadcasts tonight threetimes something to make the people think about the allday monitoring.

technorati tags:tv

I do have a problem: I like profiling and my privacy! Can they exists simultaneously?

I’m really into all the web2.0-profiling stuff: flickr, delicious, youtube, lastfm, plazes, twitter, myspace, facebook, blogs… It’s amazing how easily you can publish and share your stuff. Collect your friends, discuss, meet new people, get feedback and new inspirations. Do you remember the good old days where self-hacked-static-html-websites was so only way to get online? What a mess – for god’s sake – they’re finally gone!

But every coin has two sides. As it is so down-to-earth to use people tend to share everything – without knowing what they are doing. Internet is a big, everlasting archive: once your data is in, it’ll get never out – and google & co. get it all. As of this, foreign people may have access to your data, which was only meant for your friends or personal storage. Years later, you data can be found – even it’s already deleted on your page – google cache and archive.org do thier best! Who no-techie-users knows about that? I myself must confess, I don’t know what personal data of mine is already out there, it’s so hard to keep track. 

As my tool whoami displays, its technical quite simple to aggregate your data,  create relations, new coherences. Suddenly your are transparent for everyone! 
So, what is a good solution to strike a balance between sharing data and still having privacy? Is it just using those websites with brain & care? Do we need more technical support, do we need more educational advertising?

(for those who read this article in ten years later: sorry I was young and need that money

Under the title “Die schöne neue Welt der Überwachung” SPIEGEL-Online brings us a flashmovie which illustrates the links between observation and everdaylife. Good motivation to think about good and bad sides of observation and new techniques.

netzpolitik.org just published the re:publica video of my supervisor Stephan Baumann and Ralf Bendrath talking about net-identity – ‘Identität im Netz’

..sorry, german only..