2008 - A Season of Enrichment
The Internet has grown to an adolelescent stage. The first decade we witnessed from birth through infancy a powerful rise of the Internet. Some declaring that the Internet was to be a source of freedom, others evangelizing an Internet of shared knowledge and yet others fueled by greed tried harnessing and then proprietorial this knowledge for monetary reasons.
The second decade we saw the bastions of the civilised Internet collapse, or rather implode upon themselves bringing forth life the open source applications. This change has had a profound affect on how we interact on the Internet. With the proliferation of user media. Blogs, moblogs, now video exploding on the scene has broadened our scope or rather re-defined how we harvest, store and assimilate information.
The wild and wily web has indeed gone through some growing pains akin to a wild west movie. With the speed of the nanosphere has come to my attention an increasingly complex issue that Daniel Solove author of the book titled “The Future of Reputation” that is the question of the protection of ones privacy.
Solove’s book is two fold really:
- discuss how rumors, gossip, and haming are being transformed when they take place online.
- what ought to be done about the problem.
To download a sample chapter of Solove’s book go to the above link and if you want some background on this author follow the author name link above.
All this is super interesting and brings me to where we are to day in a “season of enrichment”. The Internet this year we will see OpenData (Data silos and walled gardens are a huge loss of opportunity and more people are figuring that out every day.) coming to the forefront. With dataportability the user will have control over how you want to viewed and ultimately discussed over the Internet.
A good place to start is at the OpenID to familiarize yourself on this hot topic.
