down the avenue: Life in a Digital Goldfish Bowl

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Only Those Who See the Invisible, Can Do The Impossible
The Age of your Heart is the Age of what you Love - Marcel Prévost
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one opening before us. -Helen Keller
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. -Paul Tournier
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. -Carl W. Buechner
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The foolish reject what they see, the wise reject what they think
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein
When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you - Lao-tzu
The world surrenders to a quiet mind
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July 07, 2007

Life in a Digital Goldfish Bowl

The Financial Times this week on what it means today and in the future to have a transparent life -- online. On issues around privacy and transparency, he points out that, "ultimately, users will have to come to their own personal accommodations with these new technologies.

Expectations about rights to privacy will evolve, even as the very definition of what it means to lead a private life will change. Life in a digital goldfish bowl will never be the same – but it need not all be for the worse." No, indeed - life in a digital goldfish bowl will never be the same but it could get a lot more interesting.

Client Spock gets a plug in the piece as do popular hyped services Facebook and Twitter.

July 7, 2007 in Client Media Kudos, On Search, Social Media, Web 2.0 | Permalink