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R U a winner?, originally uploaded by tamadhanaval.

Big Big Design is co-sponsoring a fundraising event next Thursday: the MedExpress Ducky Derby.
On August 5, we’re racing hundreds of rubber ducks by floating them down Sullivan Run in Butler. The backer of the winning duck will win $1000.
Tickets to rent a duck for the race are $5. [...]

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Two interesting discussions of personal privacy and online social networks.
First, this article about the permanence of online information and its implications for an individual’s reputation: “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” by Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times Magazine.
We’ve known for years that the Web allows for unprecedented voyeurism, exhibitionism and inadvertent indiscretion, but [...]

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Our friends at Lunametrics are offering a one-day SEO workshop this week, and there’s still time to sign up.
Want your site to show up at the top of Google but don’t want to spend a fortune to get it done? Here’s something most SEO consultation companies won’t tell you: You can do it [...]

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Our new officemate, Sydney, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey.

Anthony has adopted a dog, Sydney. She’s pit bull mix, about two years old, and absolutely the sweetest thing. She’s a little shy around tall men and a lot anxious when Anthony isn’t nearby, but she’s starting to get used to her new surroundings and relax.

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Related to my post yesterday about Facebook’s privacy settings: danah boyd posted in more detail about the implications of Facebooks privacy (“Facebook and ‘radical transparency’“). These two paragraphs convey the problem I often see in which people haven’t thought through the implications of the “network” part of social networks:

A while back, I was talking with [...]

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Yesterday the New York Times made a noble attempt to map Facebook’s new, super-complicated privacy settings, via a few well-designed graphics and an accompanying article (“The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking,” by Nick Bilton, 5/12/2010).
The new opt-out settings certainly are complex. Facebook users who hope to make their personal information private should be prepared [...]

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British comedian/writer/actor/generally-brilliant-person David Mitchell gets passionate about passion in advertising

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Last night I attended an interesting discussion at Pitt, “The Future of the Book.” I knew ahead of time that I’d want to share my notes, and I was curious how others might react to the ideas.
So I set up an event on Cover It Live. It’s a simple-to-use gadget for documenting anything as it [...]

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An article in the Wall Street Journal last week (“Entrepreneurs Question Value of Social Media,” Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ 3/15/2010) said that a recent study showed that small firms were having mixed results in their use of social media.
In and among the survey results, the article gives several examples of companies seeing a positive [...]

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For an excellent overview of the concepts and issues surrounding online privacy and publicity, check out danah boyd’s keynote speech from SXSWi for 2010.

Just because a large percentage of people engage in public does not mean that they don’t care about privacy. Pew found that 85% of adults want to control [...]

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