Archive for April, 2010

Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy, Visualized

Much has been said about Facebook’s new personalization features, the growing privacy concerns of its users – and the social network’s apparent oblivion to them. I came across an interesting post by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights advocacy group, which highlighted excerpts of Facebook’s privacy policy over five years to “illustrate Facebook’s [...]

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Writer’s block? Climb cabinets. Lie on the floor

A feral child.  A storm chaser.  A mowing mailman.  I’ve always been an admirer of Lane DeGregory’s work – especially her knack of finding fascinating subjects. A features reporter at the St. Petersburg Times, she prefers writing about people in the shadows.  So, when a narrative fiction class I took at Georgetown demanded that we [...]

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