Links for class today...

CBS news story about internet censhorship bill.
Basically the same story on Perez Hilton's blog, 'cause...

Basically the same story on The National Review's website.

Infographic about censorship in China.

Privacy in the age of Twitterbookspace?

Just a link and some food for thought as we jump into our discussion of privacy rights and communications technologies next week. Over the weekend, check out this editorial about real world privacy in the age of immediate, ubiquitous, digital communication. Terrifying Interesting food for thought.

Also, just because it fits in with some of our economics discussions this week (especially about global manufacturing and U.S. consumerism), check out this theory regarding price-hikes for our cell phones.

Advertising, privacy, and your use of the Interwebs

We're just starting our look at advertising rhetoric (let's call it chocolate, for now), and we've got privacy/freedom of expression coming up in the not-so-distant future (let's call it peanut-butter; I'm going somewhere with this metaphor).

Ta-DA! Marketplace Tech Report did a story today that is basically the Reese's Cup of my little blog post. See? I told you I was going somewhere with it.

The story is about a study done by Carnegie-Mellon (considered a VERY good technology-focused university) suggesting that our online "opt-out" decisions, supposedly protected by Federal mandates, have probably NOT been honored. In other words, when we thought we were protecting our online privacy as we avoided/engaged online advertising, it turns out that the advertisers were probably still collecting data on us. Give the article a read. Go on; click on some links...