5 days ago
Linkorama : The BOFH lives: 88% of IT workers would steal data if fired - Of the study respondents, 88 percent admitted they would take sensitive data with them when leaving their current place of employment, and approximately one-third said that they would abscond with company password lists.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Will Profit Motive Undermine Trust in Truste? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - That is the view of Truste, a 10-year-old non-profit organization that certifies that Web sites meet some minimum standards to protect the privacy of their users. The group is converting to for-profit status and selling the bulk of its newly created stock
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Trust in Peers Trumps the "A-List," Study Finds - More Edelman Trust metrics
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Linkorama : What's Most Important for Success in Enterprise 2.0? - I spoke earlier this week at the FASTForward conference in Orlando, and used the opportunity to toss out some conjectures about the factors that differentiate successful Enterprise 2.0 deployments from unsuccessful ones. These conjectures were not develop
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Information Ownership in an Information Economy - Information is going to be like money. And we’re going to move it around like money. [We already are.] Institutions that hold information are going to be like banks. With a variety of services, and with rights and duties associated with our information,
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy - Facebook is collecting information about user actions on affiliate sites regardless of whether or not the user chose to opt out, and regardless of whether or not the user is logged into Facebook at that time. The evidence I present below directly contrad
Rod Begbie : Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in. - CA Security Advisor Research Blog - CA - Even if you're using Facebook's privacy settings to opt-out of their new "Beacon" "service", the info is still getting sent to Facebook who may or may not be gathering it. Thank gawd for Adblock. [via] #
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Defrag Day 1, part 2 - Defragging identity, disclosures and vendor relationship management | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
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11 month ago
Linkorama : The World Beyond the LAN: Trust and Human Resources - He just smiled and said: “If you trust your employees you don’t need DRM.”
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13 month ago
Linkorama : The UCSC Wiki Lab - "The idea is very simple," de Alfaro said. "If your contribution lasts, you gain reputation. If your contribution is reverted [to the previous version], your reputation falls."
Simon Willison : Wikipedia trust colouring (with demo) - Wikipedia trust colouring (with demo). “The text background of Wikipedia articles is colored according to a value of trust, computed from the reputation of the authors who contributed the text, as well as those who edited the text.” [via]
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Interview with Vice Admiral John Morgan - Dan Bricklin podcast on Building a community of trust in a Pier-to-Pier world (chuckle, great headline!)
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21 month ago
cameron : Newsr - make your own fake news tvcaps - Choose from a host of famous people, put them next to Larry King and create some witty headlines (via rybesh)
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21 month ago
jimray : The Long Tail: What would radical transparency mean for Wired? (Part 2) - Every person working in media should read this
Linkorama : Wikify Everything - The realities of publishing is that at some point you push the publish button. In the traditional world, that's the end of the story. It is a snapshot in time, as good as we could make it but inevitably imperfect. The errors (and all articles have them) a
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24 month ago
Linkorama : On social software and consensus - Social software can be used to solve all this. It captures the context, helping absentees “get up to speedâ€. It captures the conversation, allowing concerns and issues to be aired and recorded. Institutional memory is therefore preserved regar
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Trustmojo - On ongoing project investigating trust on the new web. Interesting ideas, beautiful site.
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26 month ago
Linkorama : Why believe Wikipedia? - The fact that Wikipedia encourages us to use these notices give us confidence that Wikipedia is putting our interests over its own.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : On the record conversations - If you need to say it, then you don’t have the trust and the relationship to request it, much less enforce it....I feel we are proceeding to a world where all conversations are on the record. Because they happened. The record cannot lie.
Paul Hammond : Confused of Calcutta » Blog Archive » Four Pillars: On the record conversations - There’s no such thing as off the record.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Banking on Blogs - Dan Gillmor interviews on enterprise social software
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Will Easy Wikis Mean Busy Cliques? - "You also have a strong culture of participation that didn't exist before," she says. "People are more adept at contributing content to people they know and trust. It's not just community of people randomly drawn together but they have a relationship."
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30 month ago
jkottke : Sociology study indicates that atheists are the least trusted group of people in America - Sociology study indicates that atheists are the least trusted group of people in America. "Researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, homosexuals and other groups as 'sharing their vision of American society.' America [via]
plasticbag : A terrifying story from a Minnesotan newspaper - Americans trust atheists less than recent immigrants and even poofs! - "Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, homosexuals and other groups as 'sharing their vision of American society.' Americans are also least willing to let their children marry atheists."
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32 month ago
Linkorama : The Revolution Will Be Reproduced - The most profound finding of the 2006 Edelman Trust Barometer is that in six of the 11 countries surveyed, the "person like yourself or your peer" is seen as the most credible spokesperson about a company and among the top three spokespeople in every co
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33 month ago
Linkorama : The Probabilistic Age - hese systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
deusx : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - "these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale."
jkottke : Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs - Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs: they're probabilistic systems "which sacrifice perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale".
Paul Hammond : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale
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33 month ago
Rod Begbie : Deciding Who To Trust - Really interesting sounding approach to warning users of untrustworthy sites -- armies of webcrawlers looking for the places which load you up with spyware and spam. #
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33 month ago
Linkorama : There is no truth - I like this twist to the argument: it's not whether Wikipedia can get to Britannica's standard of quality; it's that we've been overestimating Britannica's quality all along.
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Jimmy Wales Interview post-Siegenthaler - the day after the Siegenthaler story came to an end with the "confession" of the errant poster -- Media Giraffe Project editor Bill Densmore interviewed WikiPedia founder Jimmy Wales at the non-profit website's small St. Petersburg, Fla., office.
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35 month ago
Linkorama : Ross doesn’t trust Microsoft’s approach to Web - Scoble (respect) steps up with a thoughtful post on Trust
Simon Willison : Ross doesn’t trust Microsoft’s approach to Web - Scoble nails the reasons smart web developers avoid the MS stack.
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