Gary, et. al.,
As a Computer Systems Manager of a content management
system putting Encyclopedias on paper, then CD-ROM, and now
the WEB, I have used the same Reformation analogy to express
the magnitude as well as the turmoil the information
revolution is presenting us with. Whereas movable type
gave the common person access to reference the data, the
Internet is giving the common person access to create and
distribute data.
For example, WikiPedia. See something you don't like?
Hit edit, make the changes and then save. I did it.
You can too.
On a personal note, last year I got a phone call from my
daughter, an Air Force WSO just after CERE training, asking
me to remove all of her baby pictures from the family Web
Site. The Bad Guys have Internet, too.
Back to Encyclopedias, it's not enough anymore to just put
them on the Internet. No more, "Build it and they will
come." Now it's all about Guided Learning, Correlations to
State and National Standards and assessments (NCLB), what we
used to call tests. Right now we are saving in some database
for posterity what little 10 year old Johnny answered to:
The Moon revolves around the ____ (Pick one: Sun, Earth,
Jupiter, Mars.)
The ONE MOST important of the many new responsibilities
this data age has presented each and everyone of us with is,
we must manage our personal data. Sorry folks, and I
helped.
FaceBook is relatively easy. Go into you profile settings
and set the security level on everything to "Friends Only".
Next, Don't put anything in FaceBook or any other Web Page,
you don't want public. Lastly, be careful who you choose as
friends.
If you want off of FaceBook, click Account in upper right,
then Account Settings, then Deactivate Account. Your account
will be closed. I do not know what happens to the
information already stored on their computers. I do know
other people won't be able to see it anymore.
What's hard to manage are things like medical
records. It's why the question, "Is there an inherent
right to privacy in the Constitution?" is very important.
Greg
--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Editorgary@aol.com
> <Editorgary@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Editorgary@aol.com
> <Editorgary@aol.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Healeys] Facebook
> > To: healeys@autox.team.net
> > Date: Monday, July 19, 2010, 1:34 PM
> > Since I edit print magazines, I've
> > been spending a lot of time thinking
> > about these new means of communications that are (no
> joke,
> > I'm totally serious
> > here) revolutionized our civilization to the same
> extent
> > that occurred when
> > movable type and literacy eventually wiped out
> minstrels,
> > messengers and
> > oral traditions in the 14-18 centuries. Only this time
> it's
> > happening in the
> > space of two generations.
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