Lifestreaming Taken Too Far?
As I mentioned recently, I have been experimenting quite a lot lately with the whole lifestreaming concept. But there are limits.
God, myBlogLog is creepy. I don’t exactly want people to know what I’m reading.. I don’t share google reader links either. :) – Eric Rice
I tried Wakoopa for a while, but decided to unstall it because I felt like it wasn’t particularly useful. I haven’t quite been able to bring myself to try cluztr. But this one…
You walk into work at 9, leave at 5, and for the life of you can’t figure out what you spent all day doing. SnapLogger to the rescue. Install this little application on your PC and it will take a screenshot at specified intervals throughout the day, which you can play back as a movie. Installing this application will either make you more productive or just more self conscious and nervous. – Brad Linder
That takes things just a little too far.
Caveat Internet
Are you always careful when you are using a public Internet station or a public Access point?
Any business traveler who has logged on to a wireless network at the airport, printed a document at a hotel business center or checked e-mail messages at a public terminal has probably wondered, at least fleetingly, βIs this safe?β Although obsessing about computer security is a bit like worrying about a toddler β potential hazards lurk everywhere and you can drive yourself crazy trying to avoid them β the fact is, business travelers take certain risks with the things they do on most trips. – Susan Stellin
How about the people who come in your library?
E-mail Addresses are Public Records
Any website for any sort of government agency in Florida is now required to prominently display the following statement:
Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing. – 668.6076 Public records status of e-mail addresses; agency website notice.
It has become a very popular phrase in Google.
Age Online
With heightened concerns over sexual predators lurking at so-called social-networking sites, state attorneys general have called for such communities, particularly MySpace, to improve age and identity checks. If only it were so easy, experts say. “We’re all just grasping for solutions,” said Anne Collier, co-author of the forthcoming “MySpace Unraveled: What It Is and How to Use It Safely.” “We haven’t fully researched it and thought about all the implications.” – Anick Jesdanun
The irony is that I was listening earlier to a recent SecondCast where Philip Rosedale was making many of the same points. And I heard an anecdote just a short while ago about something age-related that happened in a library near here.
I don’t know what the answer is, but I think that this has the potential to be the major library issue of the year one way or the other.
Life in a Police State
It seems like it has been a bad couple of weeks to be a library Director. Jackie Griffin of the Berkeley Public Library recently resigned under a settlement agreement with the city. Jo Ann Pinder was fired as Director of the Gwinnett County Library without any reason given (although some questionable ones were hinted at). But this one really concerns me as well.
Library Director Michele Reutty is under fire for refusing to give police library circulation records without a subpoena. Reutty says she was only doing her job and maintaining the privacy of library patrons. But the mayor called it “a blatant disregard for the Police Department,” which needed her help to identify a man who allegedly threatened a child. Reutty, the director for 17 years, now faces possible discipline by the library board. – Merry Firschein
Reutty is in trouble acting “in accordance with New Jersey state statutes governing access of private information from libraries.” While she may have violated procedure by not contacting the borough attorney, it seems from the comments that that is not what the upset is all about. It was not all that long that Steve Roberts lost his job for doing essentially what she didn’t.
I guess whoever said that “No Good Deed goes unpunished” was correct.
