Cover of current paperback
Finished “Girl with the Dragon Tatoo” by Stieg Larrson finally. I started reading it in June. It was OK and more than once I thought it was talking a lot more time to develop than it needed to be.
And then I saw “The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut” in The New Yorker by Nora Ephron, which was a very funny version of how I felt. I really enjoyed this line: Salander opened the door a crack and spent several paragraphs trying to decide whether to let Blomkvist in.
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WSJ: chart on retirement ages by country
WSJ: Stressed States Are Forcing Workers to Retire Later
Lawmakers in at least 10 states have voted this year to require many new government employees to work longer before retiring with a full pension, or have increased penalties for early retirement.
New York Times: Social Security Jitters? Better Prepare Now
Obama administration is expected to receive a report in December on recommendations to shore up Social Security.
The Wall Street Journal began a multi-part series today on the value and use of the data collected from reader’s search and web clicks. Cookies and other data-tracking methods have been around for years, but the article notes that much more data is being collected and cross-referenced now.
In an ad-driven world, it’s important that advertisers reach the most effective audience they can, which means getting ad message in front of consumers at critical times. Showing me Barbie ads, even the new video Barbie, is not going to get me to buy it.
The package’s timing is comes days after Senate committee hearings on privacy, whick were viewed either as a joke by some, see ars technia Congress ponders privacy of your underwear, immortal soul or a serious development in the industry, see Politico.com Senate eyes online privacy rules.
Privacy is a flash subject, where readers get very upset when the alerted to the data collected, but time after time, they are willing to give away sensitive information for trinkets.
Other pieces of Saturday’s WSJ package:
- Sites Feed Personal Details To New Tracking Industry
- TrackerScan to learn of privacy policies of web sites
- The Internet is rife with surveillance technology, but you can cover some of your tracks
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Good summary of the North Carolina state budget from Sunshine Review. I was looking for how much revenue had fallen year to year. In 2010, revenue was down 10.9 percent from the 2009 budget.
Posting so many old headlines and snippets of things that caught my interest up to five years ago shows how much we thought we knew but didn’t and how much we thought would change.
Many of these posts were before Twitter and Facebook’s wholesale adoption. It was the promise of Web 2.0 before the collapse of finance markets. It was a time when we were five years younger and had a little less experience and perspective.
This started as project to clean up some digital closets and drawers.
I could have tossed those old links and bookmarks, but now it’s an interesting time capsule for me. The current version of those for me now are the Twitter Weekly Updates.