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Welcome to the panopticon

Welcome to the panopticon

Tonia Ries has just published an article titled Privacy Fail: Klout Has Gone Too Far, which outlines how Klout is indexing social networks and creating/measuring user profiles, even if they have never registered with Klout. About the same time Facebook was accused of creating 'shadow profiles' on

riot, protest, street, crowd, laws, regularization, bill, payment, money, pay, tax, expenses, business, bank, vulture funds,

Riots, desire, consumerism, community and values.

Want is a funny word. It can mean different things, such as: "absence or deficiency of something desirable or requisite" or "to be lacking or absent, as a part or thing necessary to completeness", or "to feel a need or a desire for; wish for&

Generational theory cannot explain how people behave

Generational theory cannot explain how people behave

Quite often there's an article that bundles us all up into handy age-based cohorts (a.k.a. 'generations'). Behavioural phenomena are neatly explained by the characteristics of the particular age cohort or generation. Based on the theories of Strauss and Howe generations have been adopted

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