Posted in Politics on Sep 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I recently came across this website that is dedicated to fact checking on political statements in the USA. If you listen to the candidates for US president it is often very hard to know if they are talking the truth, bending the truth in their direction or lying outright. Interesting to see that this website [...]
Posted in Social Software on Dec 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the area’s of research from Telematica Instituut is using technology to determine the context of people. For example where you are, who you are with, what is your mood, what are you doing. This context is very usefull input for a lot of other things like recommendation (when you search for a restaurant [...]
Posted in social networks on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
It is amazing how fast social networking is growing. Every time I am giving a presentation I always ask my audience how many people use one or more social networking sites like Facebook, MySPace, Hyves, LindedIn or another. Since a year this percentage is growing from 20% to more than 70% nowadays. I think especially [...]
Posted in privacy on Oct 3rd, 2007 3 Comments »
I am member of a guidance committee for Rathenau instituut in the Netherlands for a project about privacy. In this project we deal with the changing concept of privacy in our society. I talked about it some time ago in this post. It still amazes me how much people put on the net (including what [...]
Posted in governance on Oct 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
When I start to work on something new the first thing you do is find a lot of information about the subject you are going to deal with. However, information only gets you started. In order to really understand a subject it is essential to talk to people that have dealt with it before. You [...]
Posted in social networks on Sep 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I think we all know the sorry feeling that we lost track of people we knew and worked with in the past but lost sight of. In the past it a was always very hard to find them again. Since some time now there is a new social network called LinkedIn. The idea is that [...]
Posted in crowdsourcing, diversity, governance, Social Software on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
I remember as a small child that, when you had taken some cookies from the cookie jar you were not supposed to take, your mother somehow always knew. I suppose this must feel the same for the people that got caught by the Wikiscanner. This is an application that relates the IP adresses from the [...]
Posted in businessmodel, paticipation, Social Software on Jul 9th, 2007 6 Comments »
They made it! The group of people from AssignmentZero I blogged about some time ago have their articles published on Wired. Though it is easy to see that it has been a mixed blessing in results it is also easy to see the enthusiasm people have in doing this. One of the conclusion they have [...]
Posted in diversity, long tail, recommandation on Jul 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
This is such an interesting example of how our new production of information can go wrong:This is an interview with Christine Boutin, the French minister of housing, about the conspiracy that George W Bush is behind the attack on the WTC towers on 9/11. A small translation of the first part goes like this: I [...]
Posted in businessmodel, governance, Politics, privacy on Jul 5th, 2007 No Comments »
When I have an appointment at an organisation that is very security conscious (e.g. Police, Thales, the home office and others) I normally have to show an official ID like driver license or passport. In normal life we all feel comfortable doing this when there is a reason for this security. And we see it as a normal task [...]
Posted in long tail, privacy on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Just after my last post I read this article about the way digital traces from a young and sometimes foolish past can catch up to you. In the article I mentioned above from danah boyd a hypothetical case is written where somebody gets confronted during a job interview with the fact that she has protested against the [...]
Posted in Politics, privacy on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Privacy is dead and I am afraid we are all to busy to attend the funeral. And face it, we don’t love her as much as we used to. It is amazing how much information can be found on all of us. So much that it amazes me when I can not find digital traces of [...]
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