Just the sheer sound of the phrase sounds repugnant. Targeting? Like I’m some sort of wild game to be hunted down. No. Not hunting ME down, that would be too personal. It’s my behavior. From an article today on Mashable:
Data points amass as you cl…
Behavioral Targeting: Do. Not. Want.
29 April 2011 by
Personal Data is Important: Does Anybody Care?
14 April 2011 by
[final article published on the O’Reilly Radar Blog – I put the unedited version up here]
I’m one of those people who, like most people, tends to surround myself with like-minded folks. Most dinner party conversations turn into a rousing debate on th…
Buyosphere: The Big Picture
12 April 2011 by
We can’t lie. We have ulterior motives. Really big ones. Most people don’t see it when they look at Buyosphere. They see a fun place to post the stuff you own and buy and share it and organize it and discover cool, new stuff.
But that’s all a gui…