Buzz privacy

[armb]

Google seem to have realised they screwed up:
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/02/12/whats-the-buzz-about-studying-user-reactions/
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/millions-of-buzz-users-and-improvements.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/google_buzz_tweaks_tinnitus/

I'm still not sure what it's going to offer over existing social things.

Meanwhile, bohemiancoast has a neat summary of the problem, with incitefulinsightful link about some of the reasons why geeks are likely to make that sort of mistake (which I hadn't seen before, but I certainly recognise them).

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this was deliberate or not:

inciteful link

but oh, so appropriate!

[armb.livejournal.com]

Oops. No that wasn't deliberate. It does seem to have triggered a certain about of discussion about a specific unnamed person, but I'm sufficiently out of fandom not to know what that's about.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

I've no idea who the person is, either, but every single GSF-related thread I have ever seen has generated rather more heat than light....

[uk-sef.livejournal.com]

I don't find the "reasons" to be insightful - at least not about geeks. Rather they look to me like exactly the sort of things that neurotypicals believe/do and even knowingly use as emotional blackmail against each other. I think you'd be able to play fallacy bingo from those with any average set of tweens, teens, gang members, soap opera characters etc.

[armb.livejournal.com]

They're certainly none of them exclusive to geeks.