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?