The bonus thing was to consider creating a definitive “About Me Page”. When I was in grad school I actually used about.me to create this page, and linked to other online profiles I had from there. About.me started out as a one page bio, and over time I saw it start to encroach on LinkedIn’s…

Not the first time I’ve quoted this song on this blog, but when a band writes a song based on Orwell’s 1984 and you’re talking about privacy and security in the 21st century it’s hard not to think of this song. Although, if we consider Neil Postman’s book Amusing Ourselves to Death we must consider…

Overview As I mentioned in the previous post, most of what we could read this week sounds familiar. From some of the warnings/cautions espoused by professors during my undergrad days, through to what I read a bit more widely online. Most of the advice circles social media, of course, the likeliness of people having FB,…

Working on the 9x9x25 challenge issued by Terry Greene at the end of 2018 got me blogging more than I had since I was a blogger for Helsinki Summer School back in 2012. Blogging tends to be one of those things where I have a lot of trouble building the habit and keeping up with…