Knowledge is power and I’m hanging onto it
In a recent post I listed several social issues related to the so-called attention economy. One of these is deciding how to manage the digital record — the “breadcrumb trail” — of your attention while online. For example, Amazon knows what you purchased through them, NetFlix knows what movies you’ve rented, and all the big search engines have a complete log of every query ever issued from every IP address, together with the search results clicked on. (Yikes.) As Jon Udell writes, at least some people believe this status quo is unacceptable.