Tag: Google

• On privacy…

  SHARING IS CARING. SECRETS ARE LIES. PRIVACY IS THEFT. —The Circle by Dave Eggers One of the ideas explored in Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle is the loss, and even voluntary relinquishing, of privacy in a world where everything is filmed and nothing is ever deleted. Considering the revelations this year about the NSA’s electronic snooping,…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 3, 2014

  Notebook

  Dave Eggers, David Brin, Facebook, facial recognition, Feed, Google, Information, MT Anderson, Privacy, technologies, The Circle

• Thoughts on The Circle…

  The last book I finished reading in 2013 was The Circle by Dave Eggers. The title refers to a fictional company that is quite obviously an amalgam of Google and Facebook. The book is a dystopian view of a near-future, a nightmarish outcome of current trends like living our lives via social networks, and the resulting…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 1, 2014

  Reading

  Dave Eggers, Facebook, Fictional company, Google, Near-future, Reading, Social networks, The Circle, Thoughts, Unintended consequences

• Walking the world wide web…

  I published my first book 17 years ago. It was called Walking the World Wide Web, and it was an edited selection of all the best websites out there, with detailed reviews. It’s hard to believe now, but the web was so young in the mid-90s that it was possible to list a large percentage of the…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 21, 2012

  Notebook

  Curation, Google, Google Search, Reviews, Search engine optimization, Search Engines, Searching, Web, Web surfing