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✖ Via Noise To Signal: “Your friend just sniffed you! Sniff back? (y/n)” by Rob Cottingham, May 17th, 2010

This cartoon is an updated look at my original Facebook dogs, who kicked off Noise to Signal as the first cartoon under that name. And they are, of course, a reference/homage to Peter Steiner‘s iconic New Yorker cartoon. (more)

About Noise To Signal:

Noise to Signal is Rob Cottingham‘s take on the social web, online living and all that goes with it. N2S (as it’s known affectionately to, well, me) has appeared on such sites as the Huffington Post, PC World and TreeHugger. (more)

• Aug 13, 2010 link notes tagged: art technology illustration illustrator comic cartoon humor critic dog animal identity privacy Facebook Internet computer cyberspace

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✖ Via The New Yorker: “On The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A Dog” by Peter Steiner, July 5th, 1993

Read the Wikipedia entry about Steiner’s illustration for more info.

• Aug 12, 2010 link notes tagged: art illustration illustrator comic cartoon humor dog animal technology critic Internet identity privacy Facebook

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✖ Via The New York Times: “Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options” by Guilbert Gates, May 12, 2010

“Facebook’s Privacy Policy is 5,830 words long; the United States Constitution, without any of its amendments, is a concise 4,543 words. […] To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet.”

Read the related article by Nick Bilton : “Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking”

• May 14, 2010 link notes reblogged from fuckyeahinfo [via] tagged: technology communication data visualization chart privacy social network Facebook

TWO centuries after Gutenberg invented movable type in the mid-1400s there were plenty of books around, but they were expensive and poorly made. In Britain a cartel had a lock on classic works such as Shakespeare’s and Milton’s. The first copyright law, enacted in the early 1700s in the Bard’s home country, was designed to free knowledge by putting books in the public domain after a short period of exclusivity, around 14 years. Laws protecting free speech did not emerge until the late 18th century. Before print became widespread the need was limited. Now the information flows in an era of abundant data are changing the relationship between technology and the role of the state once again. Many of today’s rules look increasingly archaic. Privacy laws were not designed for networks. Rules for document retention presume paper records. And since all the information is interconnected, it needs global rules. New principles for an age of big data sets will need to cover six broad areas: privacy, security, retention, processing, ownership and the integrity of information.

✖ Via The Economist: “A special report on managing information: New rules for big data”, Feb 25th, 2010.

• Mar 21, 2010 link notes [via] tagged: technology communication rules law regulation privacy copyright data network Internet security ownership

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✖ Via Matt Bors: I’m a social networking site…

About Matt Boors:

“Matt Bors, 25, is a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist with United Media. He began creating political cartoons in February 2003 for the student paper at The Art Institute Of Pittsburgh. After college, it moved to into alt weeklies like the Cleveland Free Times.His cartoons now appear in the Village Voice, Chico Beat, Brick Weekly, Seven Days, Funny Times, and various websites such as Cagle.com.” (more)

First spotted via Public Communication.

• Mar 02, 2010 link notes tagged: art technology communication public privacy Internet comic humor illustrator