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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Google’s total privacy

Sunday, August 31, 2008

The incident
At the end of July a small PA lawsuit gained relatively wide coverage when Google, who was being sued, filed papers with the court that mentioned how satellite imaging impacts privacy. The story is interesting not because of what Google said, though that is what most stories focused on, but because [...]

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Maybe call it “Patch Democracy”

Monday, August 4, 2008

Farms vs. WoW
In 2006, I read a great blog post that pointed out how the professional media is still working from a very old picture of the American lifestyle. The post, called “Farm Fetish,” explained that more people in the United Stated have World of Warcraft (WoW) accounts than work on farms or ranches. I [...]

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