Posts Tagged ‘social networking’

My Web 2.0 Suicide Note

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Good by cruel internet as I press Ctrl, Alt Del on Facebook. Do not worry nor call 911 or suicide hotline. I am still alive.

I decide to commit Web 2.0 suicide or in other words clear out and close my Facebook account. What brought this on was the realization how little how little control I have over privacy, account, and personal information on Facebook. An illustration on the Evolution of Privacy on Facebook shows why I am disturbed by Facebook’s privacy policy.  By April 2010, accord to the graph, most of my Facebook information form gender to pictures could be accessed by the entire internet.

The privacy issue came home to roost when I surfed over to cnn.com for an article on unemployment and noted my logged in Facebook account ready for me to click likeit . It is the sharing of my account to third party sites that got me worrying. Not to mention Facebook pushing me to friend people I do not even know. Facebook and Google apps is why I turn nose up in the web 2.0 and the coming cloud computing. When one stores data on Goggle or any other web app host like photobucket and blogger , one essentially surrenders ones privacy and profile information to the hosting company. It is way I prefer this blog on my own rented server space than using an apps hosting site

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Perry Wins Texas Republican Gov. Primary Race Lesson For Republicans

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

I do not know very much about Texas Politics but I congratulate Perry for winning. There is a very important lesson to Republicans if they want to win in 2010 and 2012; the lesson is about a third of the way down the news story reported by Fox:

“The Perry campaign from the beginning took a big gamble and chose not to use yard signs, recorded phone canvassing, or direct mail, and instead concentrated on social networking on the Web, grassroots community organizing and, of course, TV.”

Parry won because he thought outside of the typical Republican box. I believe we lost on Measure 66 and 67 in Oregon because of old tired ineffective methods like phone banking. There are two principals I want Republicans to get a hold of, social networking that is getting the information to the people. The information must be ready accessible to the people and not just mostly likely voter or narrow interest groups. The second related to the first is grassroots community organizing. This is not getting the grassroots to pack the office to make annoying phone calls but to be in their neighborhoods, on the streets, in the offices, coffeehouses and more where the people are. It is very important the grassroots given freedom and latitude to whom they reach and not simply given a list of mostly voters filtered by a phone survey. The campaign must give the tools how to reach but leave it to the grassroots in determining whom to reach.

The Lesson of Perry is if we want to win, we must change the way we campaign

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