TAG: identity
After seeing the woman who stole her identity in a Starbucks she chased her down . . . totally crazy.
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"Those who saw the telephone as a destructive force in communities might have had -- and might still have -- a point, but technological changes have left them on the fringe of society."
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"Lesson one: a social network that lets people express multiple identities in multiple ways is almost always going to dominate a network that tries to confine identity within a singular niche. "
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You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well
"In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines . . . "
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"A very freaky PSA that targets GenY kids who are apparently far too comfortable posting everything online."
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As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.
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I Know What You're (Collectively) Thinking, Planning
"How long before the collective search terms of a company can be used to sufficiently predict the products and services they next bring to market?"
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Friendship: The Laws of Attraction
"The conventional wisdom is that we choose friends because of who they are. But it turns out that we actually love them because of the way they support who we are. "
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ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens)
"While adult bloggers talk about building an identity through extended blogging, i keep finding teens who got locked out of Xanga and responded by making another Xanga (or a Blogger or a LiveJournal)."
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In Praise of Radical Transparency
"Perhaps the most interesting of these is the shift from secrecy to transparency."
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Would You Like Me To Seduce You?
"[These products] are being differentiated by the difference they make in our lives and the attitudinal difference it creates in the passionate zealots that participate in these new consumer cults."
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"The right thing is to build not a bubble, with it's binary in-or-out choice, but to build a gradient, with shades of resources you make available as people achieve success."
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"The most intelligent producers of media have clued into the way the Internet’s destroyed social censure, and are turning this knowledge into dollars as fast as they can."
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secrets (Or why a bunch of kids just might save the 21 century by making it easier to cheat)
"I should have access to all my information, and be able to decided who can use it. If I don’t want Turnitin.com profiting off of my work for the greater good of stopping plagiarism, I should have that right."
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"Your online identity is valuable. It is making money, whether you realize it or not. Would you like to A) Keep the money for yourself, B) Give the money to charity, or C) Continue giving it to Fox News Corporation."
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Consumers' Dilemma: Consequences Of Exposure
Max Kalehoff discusses the dangers of exposing your life to the world.
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Consumers' Dilemma: Consequences Of Exposure
Max Kalehoff discusses the dangers of exposing your life to the world.
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Why lonelygirl15 Matters/Doesn't Matter
"Online personality is a shifting, strange thing and we should not be surprised that any person we encounter is real, fake or somewhere in between."
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"Life 2.0 is about discovering our purpose through finding each otherâ€â€and ourselves."
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Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds
A man posted on Craig's List looking for sex then posted the emails (including photos) that he got.
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Facets of Facets, Tagclouds And Trust
"As we develop a literacy for tagclouds, they let us peek inside a person’s mind. We get more out of these clouds than just an idea of a person’s reading- and classifying habits. Tagclouds are inspiring. They contain hints."
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Identity and Identification in a Networked World
"This symposium will examine critical and controversial issues surrounding socio-technical systems of identity, identifiability and identification."
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"The summer-camp ink blot, then, is universal. You are how you camped, even if you never camped at all."
Lawyers, Priests, and AOL's Data Release
"Here’s the bottom line: what’s inside our minds is no longer private (or a lot less private). Nothing we do on the Internet is private. And there is a not insignificant risk that if we don’t come to terms with this as a society."
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"These are my passions, but they reflect the part of me that is about horses, running, skiing, skating, the environment, writing, or creating. If I relabel them to reflect my gender, I believe both (my gender and the labeled thing) are diminished by the "
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"I’m Internet famous. It’s a rough life I live, but I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. And if you actually believe all this shit then you must be Internet famous like me."
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"In the old static-network world, it made no sense to send people to other networks; in the new, fluid world, they’re going to go there anyway, and so the best thing to do is to help them find the best stuff, redefining the value of a network."
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THE WAR FOR ATTENTION: SUMMER 2006
"The gestures of our lives are recorded, and we become represented – on “Top 100� lists, blogrolls and Flickr badges of different sizes. And the narratives of our electronic Attention gestures have even crossed back into offline mass media."
"Our multiple selves overlap, intersect, and interact in ways that are much messier. Erasure is not an acceptable ideology - every interaction, every mouse-click, every blog entry becomes a new piece in our larger distributed, networked identity."
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"I think it would be most excellent if everyone would link to this page, and drive this post up Google's results for the word "Dean." I think it would help him get a head start in the world to have a lot of pagerank right out of the gate."
The Future of the Object Expanded
A fantastic explanation of Bruce Sterling's “internet of things.�
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Individual Talent as Media Brand
"As Google continues to destroy the value of branded content, individual media brands may be the last line of defense."
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For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Resume
College kids are facing the hard truth from all the stuff they've posted about themselves online.
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"In a world where people are looking for brands to be more human and authentic, perhaps behaving predictably has issues."
"When it comes to jobs, let your blog be your screener. If you run into potential employers similiar to those Kristine had to deal with, then screw ‘em, there are better places out there that’ll have more respect for you."
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Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace
Danah Boyd's excellent look at MySpace and it's impact on youth culture.
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The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon
"Digital devices and network connections can allow individuals to bypass chains of command and control."
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A visualization of what life could have been like if different things had happened. Follow all the paths.
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Loosing Google's Lock on the Past
"But if misery loves company, then there is solace in knowing that many people bristle at the mere thought of being Googled because of the photographs, news clippings or blog entries that they feel do not reflect who they really are."
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