Category: Blather

Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp

“ These days, people are seeing their privacy punctured in intimate ways as their personal, professional and online identities become transparent to one another. Twenty-somethings are going to search engines to check out people they meet at parties. Neighbors are profiling neighbors. Amateur genealogists are researching distant family members. Workers are screening co-workers.

“In other words, it is becoming more difficult to keep one’s past hidden, or even to reinvent oneself in the American tradition.”

Of course, Israel has never had a tradition of obscurity – like most small countries, I guess, everyone knows everyone else, or at least their cousin.

Updated to MovableType 2.21. Just posting this to test if pinging weblogs.com works (there’s a much more sophisticated feature called TrackBack, which allows peer-to-peer notification instead of just client-server, but it’s clearly non-trivial.

Just shows you that development of this is driven by techies. Instead of giving MT a real built-in search engine, they spend time doing bleeding-edge stuff.

Although since the other big new feature of this release is the option for a MySQL backend, perhaps they wanted to do that before they started on search.

My brother and his wife were photographed at the airport by a news photographer (credited as Oren Agmon) and their photo (very tiny) appears in this Ynet article.

Here’s the image itself – don’t know how long the direct link will last, but I probably can’t legally keep a local copy of it, can I?

Due to Ori’s request, blog service is resumed. Still using Radio 7.
I was in Rome over Passover, and in New York the week after that (work), so I missed FantasyCon. In between trips, I stumbled across Michael Bernstein’s blog, which had some dramatic reports about the continuous terror attacks that took place during his visit to Israel. Of particular personal interest to me is his mention of not going to FantasyCon.

Bernstein also has this interesting link to an index of Israeli blogs (which apparently doesn’t include the vast empire of Israeli LiveJournal users – 435 according to their directory, although they don’t provide a full listing unless you register). Also, more recently, a link to a news blog by a group of Israeli web people, which tries to bring the Israeli prespective on events.