Why I like the things the Google Reader suggests for me...

I don't read Cory Doctorow's blog because 70% of it was noise, but I admit that the rest of it would almost be worth wading through the dreck to see.

His TEDx speech on Facebook and internet privacy was really well done.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Ele1rWQv0gQ/tedxobserver-talk-on.html

I especially loved the part where Doctorow explains that the nanny software parents use teaches kids that they don't have a right to online privacy, so why should they worry about what they post to Facebook.

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle at work, the act of observation itself changes the state of the subject.

I did really enjoy Cory Doctorow's book, Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom as well.

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Stuff here is either on hold or doing slightly better.

My crisis meter is still negative though. It's bobbling a bit near "really bad but survivable", which is a step up from the critical problems of last week and the concerns that things would devolve to catastrophic.

I'm ready for things to start getting better for real though.