My Digital FootPrint

Here's the rub with Digital Footprint ideals..... Digital Footprints are about gathering data from many different sources, the three primary ones are:- 1. Data and information that you leave in the web (content under your control) 2. Data and information that others leave about you in the web (content out of your control) 3. Analysis of your and others data and information about you. Data and information that you leave should be factual (clicks, buttons, content, blogs, usage, attention, location etc) Data and information that others leave could be factual. Interpretation of data about you will be biased on the needs of the person who wants the analysis.  Supermarkets have different needs to Government, which is different to what Google or Facebook does. Like in the real world, in a digital world Truth and Facts are probably not related.  Anything is predictable from your data but that does not make is probable.    

Like many, I was asked by my kids to change my profile to a Cartoon in support of NSPCC.  It is now widely reported that this a spoof.  It is ironic that the last post is about the value of follow.  Whilst consideration was given to everyone following the original fool there is still value to be created. Damage from this spoof - 'We were pleased to note that the NSPCC, while not responsible for the campaign, have welcomed the attention it has brought to this important issue.' However, if we now give to NSPCC, it has made a difference.

I wrote that Social filtering is deeply human at the beginning of November and I knew that there was more to the topic/ theme/ thought then but I could not articulate it. Since then I have been juggling with various ideas, these have often been driven by my necessity to justify Twitter. Twitter, get it or not, provides a function called “follow” – you can follow who you like, and you get updates/ insight/ information/ attention from them. However, can you turn “follow” into value and is following your social filter based on those you trust. Follow has an obvious value to the person who follows the leader. You gain free insights/ selection/ value/ updates/. This social filter is based on trust and it is different from curators and editors who have specific agenda’s and income/ profit requirements. In the original post I quoted David Armano   “Often times the quality of links and information I get on Twitter is better than what I would have gotten from Google because the knowledge

Today I presented at the BCS privacy day , following me was David Birch and David Lund from EnCoRe  #bcsprivacy It occurred to me during the presentations that keeping all data makes everything factual in the future.  Apparently we want control, traceability and evidence.  How much of this requirement (to keep all data) is this driven because we can collect and store it or because someone has sat down and done the analysis that says that there is real value in doing so? (ignoring the fact that Government wants to do it, however WikiLeaks could change that thinking as well) I believe that there is an important and deeply human characteristic which is story telling.  To tell a story, that you remember and pass on, requires that you are allowed to have some leeway or ability to ad-lib as the real story becomes a slow evolution to the moral.   Providing a lame excuse would be very dull if everyone had all the facts, why should we store everything and what real value will i

I wrote that Social filtering is deeply human at the beginning of November and I knew that there was more to the topic/ theme/ thought then but I could not find the words.  Since then I have been juggling with various ideas, these have often been driven by my necessity to justify Twitter.  Twitter (get it or not) provides a function called “follow” – you can follow who you like, and you get updates/ insite/ information/ attention from them, however, how do you turn “follow” into value. Follow has an obvious value to the person who follows the leader.  You gain free insights/ social filtering/ value/ updates.  This “Social filter” is based on trust and it is different from curators and editors who have specific agenda’s (and income requirements.) In the original post I quoted David Armano   “Often times the quality of links and information I get on Twitter is better than what I would have gotten from Google because the knowledge of the human feed is deep, niche, and fickle.” I now