I had a chance to be on a panel at Internet Summit ‘09 with several interesting folks, among them Rick Klau, the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google.
My very first blog, Life is Marketing, was a Blogger blog, but I had to wonder how Blogger was faring in an era of microblogging (like Twitter), [...]

There is a character on Dilbert called Mordac. If you’ve seen him, you know he is a caricature of an unfortunately real person in many corporate organizations who worries solely about data security at the expense of usability, accessibility and just about anything else:
We all hate Mordac. Of course, on a logical level, most of [...]

Last year I consulted with a local TV affiliate that wanted to build a localized social network. Part of the plan was to equip citizen journalists so that they could record and upload videos of news stories relevant to their town or county.
We would have killed for the new YouTube Direct tool just launched by [...]

Companies that sell software to monitor your child’s online activity are double-dipping by selling the collected data to marketers, according to AP.
Not every software provider is engaging in the practice, but EchoMetrix Inc’s Sentry and FamilySafe brands are called out in particular. Because the software “listens” to the instant messenger conversations of kids, it’s able [...]

So here we go… the lawsuits have begun and the days of being a completely anonymous blogger are now over.  So beware with what you say and how true or not true it is. You may fall victim to what you thought was a protected private cyber world.