Gordon's Notes

Amazon reviews have long been helpful to me, and were once a big part of Amazon’s value proposition. That is no longer true. Amazon is filt...

Facebook Reasserts Posts Can Be Used to Advertise . So if I click "Like" on a new offering by Encyclopedia Britannica, my Facebook...

It's been 3 years since the Google-Apple divorce , eight months since Google 1.0 died , and six months since I tried divorcing Google . ...

Six years ago, I mourned for the demise of t he last good toaster . I could find lots of cheap toasters, but they didn't last long. It ...

Just three years ago Facebook's Gordon's Evil Score was 12, and Google was a mere 6. Today, 3 months after Google's day of infa...

I visited my Google Profile today. It includes G+ posts, and more was public than I'd expected. There's no longer a way to disable t...

Setting aside the act of mass datacide that moved Google up my corporate evil scale , G+ suffers from a fundamental Circle problem. It may ...

Google is trying to enforce full transparency in their, large, corner of the web. I think they're making a terrible mistake. I can see ...

If you've ever used Facebook, log out of Facebook then try this search: site:facebook.com "your name" I don't share pu...

Google + requires us to use our "true name". In may case John F, not "John Gordon" or any of my other aliases. Charlie ...

With the help of a few friends, I somehow slipped through this narrow window into Google Plus ( my G+ profile , which has lost its vanity UR...

For a non-expert, I do a fair bit of ruminating about the relationships between identities , credentials , and avatars/facets . Today a  bug...

I own Minority Report. I need to watch it before it's entirely passe. For example,  Social Intelligence  is marketing employee behavio...

I've mentioned David Brin's prescient 1999 book,  The Transparent Society , a  few   times . In today's panopticon it's a pr...

I wrote a negative Amazon review of Apple's battery charger (2/6 batteries were defective) . As expected "0 of 2 people found the f...

My Google Account (Gmail and more) was hacked on 9/3/10 , a day before I wrote about the risks of online backup . I had a 99th percentile...

My memory prostheses  got a nice upgrade when I integrated my Outlook and Palm/Toodledo "notes" into a single Cloud based reposit...

A post I wrote on unregulated (Chinese, but really, everything is) electronic cigarettes received a lot of curiously phrased comments. I wo...

Last February I wrote  The Buzz profile problem: I am Legion . It surprised me that I had to write the post. I thought it was self-evident...

Google claims to be trying to fix the Buzz Problem , but they're refusing to reduce the link between a public Google Profile and any Buz...