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Comment on Friday Flash Fiction by State of the writer: Need to push it… » Flotsam:

State of the writer: Need to push it… » Flotsam: — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:18:52 +0000

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Comment on The Paris Incident by The Paris Incident » Flotsam:

The Paris Incident » Flotsam: — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:19:37 +0000

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Comment on State of the writer: New Projects by Grrr

Grrr — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:17:31 +0000

Sounds intriguing. Best of luck with it… Hope to hear more in a couple of weeks, at the Weekender.

Comment on Energy by Nearly at the end of the current novel « Flotsam:

Nearly at the end of the current novel « Flotsam: — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:44:11 +0000

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Comment on Amy by Neil

Neil — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:59:18 +0000

In the event anyone things I’ve gone mad: my old blog over on wordpress.com chugs along at about 30-50 visits a day.

In the hour it took me to hear the news the blog racked up 6.5k visits. Hence why I felt I needed to take it down and why I felt I should say something.

Comment on Foursquare by thaumata

thaumata — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:37:59 +0000

I didn’t expect to end up here, but somehow, here I am. Hi.

Someone did actually set up a website called PleaseRobMe (dot com) a while back to show people how careless it was to list your own house on a geo-locating service.

I personally don’t understand Foursquare. The badges aren’t compelling for me, although I do admit a little bit of delight if I am able to check-in from strange places, like halfway across the irish sea or from the middle of a roman fort in the lakes.

I saw an interesting app once that let you attach a message to your location… a ‘whisper’, which could then only be read by other people standing in that location. I can’t see how that would EVER make anyone some money, but the idea was so much more alluring to me.

Comment on Foursquare by Neil

Neil — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:02:21 +0000

They don’t for the most part. However, they are becoming so ubiquitous that it’s possible they will just view privacy as an archaic concept. Sleepwalking into 1984.

Comment on Foursquare by Pete Burrows

Pete Burrows — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:37:42 +0000

The privacy side of these sites/systems really does worry me, and in fact I think a guy wrote a script to scrape the data from foursquare (or some other similar service) and look for trends in user’s behavior. Mainly pin pointing where users live, where they work and what hours they are away from either. I.e. a system to tell you the best time to burgle either their house or their office.

A quick google reveals:
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Geolocators-become-a-privacy-problem-1031970.html%20

I know this next part makes me sound very old indeed, but I sometimes wonder if the ‘youth’ today actually realise what they are doing when they put so much information on the internets. Maybe they do and they just don’t care, I don’t know.

Comment on Boredom by Ideas « Flotsam:

Ideas « Flotsam: — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:48:09 +0000

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Comment on Boredom by Neil

Neil — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:53:54 +0000

Ah, I suspect it’s business speak. It gets used a lot where I work and I just picked it up over the years.

I should probably come up with a different phrase.