Check out Personas, a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of your online identity. Just type in your name and find out how the shoe fits!
Category Archives: Updates
What do Facebook Quizzes Know About You?
More than you might think! If you’ve ever spent some time completing a quiz on Facebook – or are thinking about it – check out this American Civil Liberties Union Blog of Rights posting. It will get you up to speed on what FB quizzes are learning about you as you do them and how that info could be used by others.
Check out Quizlet!
If you like to use flash cards, quizzes or other neat tricks to help you study, you might want to check out Quizlet, a website that lets you create online study aids and then connect with your classmates so you can share your knowledge.
Planning to run for political office? Better be squeaky clean…
That’s a lesson that Vancouver NDP candidate Ray Lam learned the hard way when his private Facebook photos were made public. On the one hand, it seems that Facebook privacy settings may not be enough to keep private what you may not want to share beyond your friends. On the other hand, when you are running for public office, guess you should expect that any and all of your embarrasing past will be dredged up for public scrutiny. Guess we’re not looking for real human beings in government?!
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Planning to run for political office? Better be squeaky clean…
That’s a lesson that Vancouver NDP candidate Ray Lam learned the hard way when his private Facebook photos were made public. On the one hand, it seems that Facebook privacy settings may not be enough to keep private what you may not want to share beyond your friends. On the other hand, when you are running for public office, guess you should expect that any and all of your embarrasing past will be dredged up for public scrutiny. Guess we’re not looking for real human beings in government?!
Google Never Forgets
Sadly, that’s the message in a recent blog post by Seth Godin: Personal Branding in the Age of Google. He recounts an all too familiar tale of potential employer digging up the dirt on potential employees…
How do you avoid this? Live like a saint (or almost) or review these tutorial pages:
Prince Harry’s girlfriend announces her splitup with him on Facebook
Read more about this story here…
Hackers penetrate Monster and steal personal info
Presenting the LEARN section
You’ll notice a minor change in the Check Yourself box on the left hand of every section page. A progress bar will give you a better way to watch your own progress and quicklinks will help you get where you need to go faster. There’s a great new content available too!
We’ve updated Digital Tattoo with juicy new articles on how the internet is influencing and shaping academic life. Heard about Open Access Learning? Wondering about cheating and plagiarism online? Questioning the reliability of web research? Read up on the Learn section.
New Section Available and Site Updates
The Digital Tattoo site has been updated. We’ve added this new update page to keep you informed on what’s going on with this site, a workshop page that will let you know when workshops at UBC will start rolling, and a feedback form in case you want to get in contact with us. All these links can be found in the top right corner of every Digital Tattoo page.
Last but not least, we have a new section open for your reading. The Work section deals with how your digital tattoo can affect your career and job search. Go on and have a look.