Surveillance via Mobile Phones

How do I surveille thee?* Let me count the ways...™

Just when you thought it was safe to go to the mall.

Updates:
- TechCrunch Location Technologies Primer (4 Jun 2008)
- ReadWriteWeb Location Awareness: Scientist Admits to Secretly Tracking 100K+ Peoples' Phones (4 Jun 2008)

[via schneier]

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* with apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Announcing Shyttr.com beta

With all the talk of signal vs. noise lately, we're announcing a new tool to help you harness the honey wagon of noise:

http://shyttr.com/


Update:
More reasons to love the British [Fake Steve Jobs re:Shitterton]

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[Apologies to shyftr]

Surveillance via Pizza Delivery

How do I surveille thee?* Let me count the ways...™

Consumerist has a privacy Pop Quiz up today: "Can The Pizza Delivery Place Sell Your Personal Information Without Your Consent?"

Interestingly, the ubiquity and frequency of pizza deliveries make these shops ideally situated to collect multiple phone numbers and addresses on their customers, not to mention your topping preferences.

I was quite displeased the first time I called a local shop and they knew my physical delivery address even before I spoke, despite my unlisted phone number and PO Box mailing address.

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* with apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
[image credit: wikipedia]

In a Twitter about Twitter (gross generalizations)

A graph of Average Number of Following versus Average Number of Followers among Twitter users:

A funny outlying data point:

Juno: Twitter-condensed movie review

In 140 characters or less...

Ellen Page is intelligent & quirky. She makes the movie. I want to have her babies. Get the Moldy Peaches tune.

140-character Twitter-sized movie reviews

It's time to re-introduce commentary on this blog about movies and music, something I haven't really had since my inaugural post.

I've seen a lot of movies. A rough average over one per week (at the theater) over the course of my teen and adult life. Not to mention stuff on TV, and rentals. And my interests are pretty varied. So maybe a way to share this interest with a chronically attention-deficited audience is to try to write Twitter-condensed movie reviews, which I can cross post here and on my Twitter account. Some will be classics, some will be current releases, some will be in between.

We'll see how it goes.