The Danger of Quizzes
With each question in the ACLU's Privacy Quiz, you're not only told what information a quiz author can see - you're shown it. For example, after answering the first question, you learn that almost everything on your profile, even if you use privacy settings to limit access, is available to the quiz. Then, a graphic is shown which reveals selected information retrieved from your profile including hometown, groups you belong to, events attended, favorite books, and more.
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Twitter has entered the top 50, in at number 42 with an estimated 21.2 Million monthly uniques. Twitter first entered comScore's Top 50 in June '09. Note that comScore probably undercounts Twitter's audience by a lot, because many Twitter users don't visit twitter.com but use third party clients. We reported last week that an estimated 65% of Twitter users still use twitter.com, so it may be undercounted by as much as a third (but it's hard to know for sure, as many people use both the Web and third party apps).
One of the comments mentioned that comScore doesn't take into account SMS which is a big feature for Twitter. Combine that with the 3rd party services and Twitter is a "big deal."
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The Internet has become such an essential part of daily life that four out of five (82.8%) respondents say their daily routine would be disrupted if they were without Internet access – 41.3% say their routine would be “significantly disrupted.” Women are more likely than men to say their lives would be “significantly disrupted” – 43.9% versus 39.3%, respectively.
I don't watch much TV = I watch Hulu online
I don't talk on the phone = I IM and VOIP
I don't write letters = I email
So, yeah - my daily routine would be "significantly disrupted".
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After reading Mark Krynsky's post over on the Lifestream Blog, I've decided to give Posterous a go as the centralized entry area for my stream to the interwebs. What does that mean? Well - for you, nothing. If you read my updates on twitter, you'll still see them there - ditto for Facebook, FriendFeed, or my old blog.
My goal is to bring some order to the chaos and to remove any duplicate postings. I haven't quite figured out how I am going to work through my Google Reader shared items yet, but I am working on it.Here's the article from Mark on using Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform (plus it gives a good overview of what lifestreaming is): http://lifestreamblog.com/my-thoughts-on-posterous-as-a-lifestreaming-platform/And here is the article from Steve Rubel that initially renewed my interest in Posterous & sparked the article from Mark: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009/06/so-long-blogging-hello-lifestreaming.html---Comments [0]
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