Tag Archives: social networking

Streams of Data

February 9, 2010 – 21:48

I’ve written before about my thoughts on social networking websites and the data you want to give them. What I basically said is that they can do whatever the hell they like with the data provided that I’m keeping a careful watch on what data I give them. If I consciously approve it, it should [...]

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Twitter vs Me

December 9, 2009 – 22:13

Twitter has hated me for the last few days. I was getting consistent errors about exceeding my API rate limit when I haven’t even been running any clients. Just in case I changed my password and now I’m getting inconsistent errors telling me that my account has been locked from excessive bad logins. Again, not [...]

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Text. Why Not?

June 1, 2009 – 19:23

A day or two ago I reinstalled Debian on my PC, removing in the process a mostly broken installation of Ubuntu 9 (no, it came like that). In the interest of avoiding the problems usually associated with Linux on the desktop I declined to install an X server.
This afternoon I fired it up and tried [...]

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Social Networking: An Analysis Of Hypocrisy

May 17, 2009 – 21:57

It would be fair to claim that I’ve been a little hypocritical in my darting around the issues regarding Facebook in the last year or two. This is highlighted by the analysis of my behaviour (!) in Jack Scott’s article about why he doesn’t use Facebook. My article discusses some issues identified by Jack so [...]

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