The founder of FACEBOOK said privacy is dead and this account from Joanna Geary, Web Development Editor at The Times seems to prove it. She describes how she traced an American serviceman and his relatives in nine steps. It started with an innocent tweet and ended with a search across national boundaries and international organisations, all of it legal and all of it done from her desk. The result was potentially security sensitive data and personal details of the hapless target's extended family.
Read the full story and be scared here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/aug/19/newspapers-downturn?CMP=twt_fd
Showing posts with label tweet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tweet. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Twitter Writing Competition
Do you tweet?
I do, as I've mentioned before in this blog. (Follow me @agoodconfession)
Yes, it can be a time waster.
Yes, it can give you the false idea that you're connecting with people when in reality you are just sitting at your desk thinking on the keyboard
But it can also be a great source of information, advice and entertainment. The wit of other contributors never stops surprising or delighting.
It can be a channel for protest.
Twitter users bombarded companies last month pleading with them to stop advertising with the News of the World.
It can also be wildly misleading.
There were numerous tweets last week about a riot happening right outside my front door in central Brighton when all was quiet, all was peaceful. (Brighton prefers a riot of colour - the police marching at Pride last Saturday got a big cheer.)
It can also be creative. Yes, truly. Give it a go with this just launched twitter writing competition that is marking the inaugural Brighton Digital Festival.
To take part in the Twitter competition use #FLF11 so the organisors can start tracking your story submissions.
Email flashlitdigital@gmail.com with queries.
More info about Brighton Digital Festival: http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/
I do, as I've mentioned before in this blog. (Follow me @agoodconfession)
Yes, it can be a time waster.
Yes, it can give you the false idea that you're connecting with people when in reality you are just sitting at your desk thinking on the keyboard
But it can also be a great source of information, advice and entertainment. The wit of other contributors never stops surprising or delighting.
It can be a channel for protest.
Twitter users bombarded companies last month pleading with them to stop advertising with the News of the World.
It can also be wildly misleading.
There were numerous tweets last week about a riot happening right outside my front door in central Brighton when all was quiet, all was peaceful. (Brighton prefers a riot of colour - the police marching at Pride last Saturday got a big cheer.)
It can also be creative. Yes, truly. Give it a go with this just launched twitter writing competition that is marking the inaugural Brighton Digital Festival.
To take part in the Twitter competition use #FLF11 so the organisors can start tracking your story submissions.
Email flashlitdigital@gmail.com with queries.
More info about Brighton Digital Festival: http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/
Sunday, 29 August 2010
To TWEET or not to TWEET
Discovered an excellent writing blog today by Scottish author Nicola Morgan (click on the title of this post to visit). Thanks to her straightforward three part guide to twitter for writers I have re-discovered tweeting...follow me at @agoodconfession and I will follow you, promise! (Unless you are axe murderer obviously or SHOUT ALL THE TIME or just tweet about west coast bands and make me feel very old). There is another Bridget Whelan twitter account which is also me but for reasons that are too boring to relate I can't access it right now. Tweet to you soon (and if you have no idea what I am writing about check out Nicola's blog and all will become clear).
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