Comments on: Wake up and smell your lost anonymity http://catcubed.com/2007/12/27/wake-up-and-smell-your-lost-anonymity/ web design, online health care, art, brains, minds, and inbetween Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:08:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Colin http://catcubed.com/2007/12/27/wake-up-and-smell-your-lost-anonymity/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 Colin Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:16:32 +0000 http://catcubed.com/2007/12/27/wake-up-and-smell-your-lost-anonymity/#comment-1104 I went and read your posts Louis. Good commentary. I think it's funny that some people feel they "won" by google offering their last minute <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/12/managing-your-shared-items.html" rel="nofollow">shared items management</a> trick (which seems rather jury-rigged). When frankly, they really won by making it easier to find and read friend's shared feeds. Humans-- especially your friends -- make the best filters. Personally, I'm hoping that they come out with more flexible social functionality. I'd like to add friends to my shared reader that don't have to be in my gmail address book (or I in theirs). I went and read your posts Louis. Good commentary.

I think it’s funny that some people feel they “won” by google offering their last minute shared items management trick (which seems rather jury-rigged). When frankly, they really won by making it easier to find and read friend’s shared feeds. Humans– especially your friends — make the best filters.

Personally, I’m hoping that they come out with more flexible social functionality. I’d like to add friends to my shared reader that don’t have to be in my gmail address book (or I in theirs).

]]> By: Louis Gray http://catcubed.com/2007/12/27/wake-up-and-smell-your-lost-anonymity/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 Louis Gray Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:22:02 +0000 http://catcubed.com/2007/12/27/wake-up-and-smell-your-lost-anonymity/#comment-1103 You're exactly right. It's the unpopular viewpoint to take, but when you publicly share a public feed at a public URL, you shouldn't expect that to be private. During the tumult yesterday, my thoughts were very much in line with yours. (<a>Forget About Privacy. Embrace Openness.</a>) But then... <a href="http://www.louisgray.com/live/2007/12/google-reader-blinks-and-mob-wins.html" rel="nofollow">Google Reader blinked</a>. I don't feel like we won anything through their capitulation. You’re exactly right. It’s the unpopular viewpoint to take, but when you publicly share a public feed at a public URL, you shouldn’t expect that to be private. During the tumult yesterday, my thoughts were very much in line with yours. (Forget About Privacy. Embrace Openness.)

But then… Google Reader blinked. I don’t feel like we won anything through their capitulation.

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