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analysis of my Twitter friends, followers, following

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From http://labs.mirror.me/metrics See the full gallery on Posterous

My G+ reflections

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From http://labs.mirror.me/

Next mashup* event on Local Social

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 ‘local goes social’ but what is the commercial model ? 31st January (6.30pm – 8pm) at the   Innovation Warehouse   in London. If you’re interested in contributing to the event please get in touch with the team at mashup* ( team@mashupevent.com )

The Filter Bubble: what the internet is hiding from you.book review @elipariser

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The Filter Bubble : what the internet is hiding from you… So our web experience is somewhat customized by our browsing history, social graph and other factors. Should we care that this sort of information-tailoring takes place. Eli Pariser , founder of public policy advocacy group MoveOn.org , explores the topic in The Filter Bubble. Personally I have a load of issues with the whole concept that the internet is worse than what we already have . We all have filters, as irrespective of the amount of information; we filter, pick and choose things we like, align to self interest, motivate, warm to, find interesting, our background, our traumas and use friends, family, beliefs, faith to determine what we think and listen to. Least we forget the moment in time when this occurs, other distractions, stresses and items competing for our attention. The concept that the internet filters based on what we view as a filter is better or worse than picking a TV channel, news paper or magazine – w

Ignore Everybody - book insights @gapingvoid

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When at SIBOS in September with SWIFT/ Innotribe , there were a few of us authors types there…. so I traded My Digital Footprint with Hugh.  I got the better deal :) I have followed Hugh’s work for a long time as www.gapingvoid.com .  If you are not familiar with his work, do yourself a favour and take a few minutes to check out his website and the insights. The books explains where he came from and why he does what he does, what I like about Hugh’s style is the cut down of corporate and human insights.  Having read it and I gave my copy to a young entrepreneur at www.theIW.org (my incubator) who’s only word of feedback and description was “ massive ” My recommendation; top present from dads to screenagers!

Who Stewards the Personal Data Question? Org Chart

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Original Post - http://napsterization.org/stories/archives/000769.html More commentary - http://personaldataecosystem.org/2011/11/3589/

Write up about digital footprints, job seeking, recruitment, reputation and identity

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fresh_thinking_nov11.pdf Download this file This is a write up from a presentation I gave at Fresh Thinkers for Job Site - along with the other presenter Tomi Ahonen.  Tomi focussed on Mobile and gave the top stat that there are more mobiles than toothbrushes .... I focussed on digital footprints, identity, value, reputation, recruitment and the future of job hunting.  The slide deck is here and video is here