Like john Muir says ‘ take only memories, eave only footprints’, but of course he believed the footprints would be washed away by the wind and the rain.. I havent left man y footprints- but i think this is a coincidence , of my age, politics and profession .. and ironically the learning process of entering into the digital era will require me to leave many more. Already twitter and tumblr now have  a profile for me and are harvesting the (little) data I give them. My hopes are that the greater amounts of data collected about everyone else wil continue to protect me from casual disclosure. the two online articles my friend was able to source i had written two years ago have now been buried n google under a raft of pseudonymous shit and pictures of Ewan McGregor. It might be a better world if we all lived under alias es – a world of partial , assumed identitites and easy asignation. But I am aware that for most of the aspirant users of 23 things that this is nt the case, and the caveats about hw their online identities can follow them are probably real , which is profoundly saddening. I am suresome of them  will find ways of resisting – better ones than opting out..

Like john Muir says ‘ take only memories, eave only footprints’, but of course he believed the footprints would be washed away by the wind and the rain.. I havent left man y footprints- but i think this is a coincidence , of my age, politics and profession .. and ironically the learning process of entering into the digital era will require me to leave many more. Already twitter and tumblr now have  a profile for me and are harvesting the (little) data I give them. My hopes are that the greater amounts of data collected about everyone else wil continue to protect me from casual disclosure. the two online articles my friend was able to source i had written two years ago have now been buried n google under a raft of pseudonymous shit and pictures of Ewan McGregor. It might be a better world if we all lived under alias es – a world of partial , assumed identitites and easy asignation. But I am aware that for most of the aspirant users of 23 things that this is nt the case, and the caveats about hw their online identities can follow them are probably real , which is profoundly saddening. I am suresome of them  will find ways of resisting – better ones than opting out..