I work in advertising, but try not to make it my life. I love writing, art and design - and focus my time on these when I'm not working or hanging out with my family.
Some interesting bits in here regarding how most of us travel around the web, leaving bits and pieces of personal information about ourselves. Scary stuff when you actually think about how many times a year you freely give your personal info away to complete strangers and databases. - Drew
ON the Internet, things get old fast. One prime candidate for the digital dustbin, it seems, is the current approach to protecting privacy on the Internet.
Skip to next paragraphIt is an artifact of the 1990s, intended as a light-touch policy to nurture innovation in an emerging industry. And its central concept is "notice and choice," in which Web sites post notices of their privacy policies and users can then make choices about sites they frequent and the levels of privacy they prefer.
But policy and privacy experts agree that the relentless rise of Internet data harvesting has overrun the old approach of using lengthy written notices to safeguard privacy.
These statements are rarely read, are often confusing and can "hope to capture the complexity of modern data-handling practices. As a result, experts say, consumers typically have little meaningful choice about the online use of their personal information" whether their birth dates, addresses, credit card numbers or Web-browsing habits.
"There are essentially no defenders anymore of the pure notice-and-choice model," said Daniel J. Weitzner, a senior policy official at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the Commerce Department.
So if the current model is broken, how can it be fixed? There are two broad answers: rules and tools.
Rules would mean new regulations. And Congress and the Federal Trade Commission are looking at further rules that could limit how personal information is used. For example, the government might ban the use of recorded trails of a person%u2019s Web-browsing behavior "so-called click streams" in employment or health insurance decisions.
Still, the next round of online privacy regulation needs to proceed carefully, policy experts warn. They say that online data collection and analysis is an economic imperative, and that the Internet industry of the future will involve adding value to the free flow of information "much of it created by individuals and their browsing activity. Google, Facebook and Twitter are evidence of the trend, and so are legions of start-ups seeking riches in fields like social networking, cloud computing and smartphone applications. Getting this balance right is critical to the future of the Web, to foster innovation and economic growth," Mr. Weitzner said.
Whatever the future of regulation, better digital tools are needed. Enhancing online privacy is a daunting research challenge that involves not only computing, but also human behavior and perception. So researchers nationwide are tackling the issue in new ways.
At Carnegie Mellon University, a group is working on what it calls "privacy nudges." This approach taps computer science techniques like machine learning, natural language processing and text analysis, as well as disciplines like behavioral economics.
The goal is to design software that essentially sits over your shoulder and provides real-time reminders "short on-screen messages" that the information you about to send has privacy implications. "It learns, helps you and occasionally prompts you," said Lorrie Faith Cranor, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon. "When we go online, there are a lot of ways we can inadvertently give up our privacy."
On a social networking site, Ms. Cranor says, people often type in their birth dates and widely circulate them, hoping to receive online birthday greetings. But a birth date posted online, she notes, can also be used for marketing profiling, identification and potentially identity theft. A software agent, she says, could inform the user of that before a birth date is typed.
An on-screen alert is a mild nudge. A stronger one might be automatically enrolling the user in an online lottery for cash prizes (perhaps financed by the industry, to avoid tougher privacy regulation), if the person doesn't disclose potentially sensitive personal information. The stronger incentive, says Alessandro Acquisti, a researcher who specializes in the economics of privacy, may be needed to offset the bias toward immediate gratification in human decision-making thinking only of the emotionally satisfying birthday greeting next week instead of the privacy risks down the road.
M. Ryan Calo, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School, is exploring technologies that deliver "visceral notice." His research involves voice and animation technology that emulates humans. When putting information in a personal health record, for example, a virtual nurse could explain to the user the privacy implications, and trade-offs, of sharing personal information with doctors, family members, insurers and drug companies.
Mr. Calo explains that people naturally react more strongly, in a visceral way, to anthropomorphic cues. He points to a sociological experiment that had people pay for coffee on an honor system. One box for depositing cash had a picture of flowers on it, while another had a picture of human eyes. Time and again, he said, people paid more often for coffee when the box had eyes instead of flowers. "Our brains are hard-wired to respond to images that look human, alive," Mr. Calo said.
At Princeton, Edward W. Felten, a computer scientist, wants to re-engineer the Web browser for greater privacy. A key, he says, is to alter the software design so that information about on-screen viewing sessions is kept separate and not routinely passed along so a person's browsing behavior can be tracked. His plan would push mainstream browsing toward anonymous mode, which can be done in the latest browser software, but only by opening a separate, specially designed window.
"The browser,"Mr. Felten said, "needs to be less promiscuous about revealing the information collected."
Cool Hunting has been a mainstay for many a trend hound over the last few years. They just relaunched their website (and killed their weekly emails, for those that were subscribed) with a pretty nice new layout.
Easy to navigate and damn good looking = success in my book.
Varvatos makes some of my favorite clothes. If I was apt to drop whole paychecks on threads, this would be my label to do it on.
A recent appearance on HBO's "How To Make It In America" will only help elevate his status of holding the Menswear crown to a new crop that may not be in the know. His blog is a decent backstage pass into a fashion world that up until about a year ago was often VIP status only. Some of that credit should go to Sundance Channel, though.
Get involved. Show your work. Help.
While everyone will get hyped over the various spots that are made for the big game, I'm more impressed by what Wieden did before getting the assignment for EA's Dante's Inferno.
Check out the video to get a glimpse of what's playing on Sunday and to see a bit of what the creatives made to help push the WOM for EA Games.
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jeff koons for BMW's next art car
BMW 3.0 CSL by alexander calder, 1975yesterday, BMW announced that american artist jeff koons will design the company's next art car.
as part of the art car series which began in 1975, koons will be the 17th artist to participate
in the program which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. koons' predecessors include:
alexander calder, david hockney, jenny holzer, roy lichtenstein, robert rauschenberg, frank stella
and andy warhol.back in 2003, koons had expressed an interest in participating as part of the series.
he is known for his carefully fabricated sculptural, video and two-dimensional works that
explore notions of consumerism, banality and sexuality, drawing on a variety of kitsch objects
and images derived from american and consumer culture. he is best known for his series
of inflatable sculptures, along with his more recent massively-sized metallic sculptures
of balloon dogs. that being said, it's most likely his design will go beyond just painting
the surface of the car with patterns and color...
koons' car will not be shown until later this year.
BMW 3.0 CSL by frank stella, 1976
BMW 320i by roy lichtenstein, 1977
BMW M1 by andy warhol, 1979
BMW 635CSi by robert rauschenberg, 1986
BMW 535i by matazo kayama, 1990
BMW 525i by esther mahlangu, 1991
BMW 850CSi by david hockney, 1995
BMW V12 LMR by jenny holzer, 1999
BMW H2R by olafur eliasson, 2007
andrea db 02.04.10
comments:The frank stella car is amazing but without a doubt the best art car is the Sandro Chia 1992 E46. Absolutely awesome IMO
Wayne 02.04.10
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Damn cool + beautiful!
Tommy may be climbing his way up out of fashion purgatory on the back of Haring's cool. Nothing groundbreaking here, but fans of Haring will no doubt find something of interest.
It is interesting to see Hilfiger being wise enough to let the art stand center, rather than pushing his brand so hard that it gets annoying. A good start back?