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Copyright: To Pinterest or not to Pinterest?

May 18, 2012 / posted in Blog-Assignment, Social Media / No Comments

Originally posted March 13, 2012 as part of a blogging assignment for my post-graduate program. I’ve decided to redirect all posts to here to keep things consistent.

Back in the wild, wild west days of the Web 1.0, people were already wary about the use of their images online, whether photography, art or graphic design. There was no TinEye so people needed to protect their images and their work with hefty (and annoying) javascript codes. But stealing wasn’t the only problem, bandwidth was also an issue, it wasn’t cheap and when people direct-linked to your images, it caused quite a strain. But when they stole and used your image without attribution, it was a different kind of loss. A creative kind.
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Facebook Prosecution: Two judges, two family feuds, two decisions

May 17, 2012 / posted in Blog-Assignment, News, Social Media / No Comments

Originally posted February 27, 2012 as part of a blogging assignment for my post-graduate program. I’ve decided to redirect all posts to here to keep things consistent.

Now that Facebook as a wide-spread tool for connecting in the 21st Century, personal matters are becoming public on the world’s largest social network. In my personal experience, in University I found myself in a Facebook faux-pas when a boyfriend and I broke up. It was absolutely final and in my mopey-ness, I proceeded to remove our relationship a few hours after the breakup (maybe 6 hours later). The next week I found myself pounced upon by one of his friends for being “indifferent” and uncaring because I removed it so fast, when in reality, he broke up with me. While I wasn’t harassed further, I learned some nebulous implications of a personal relationship turned public and since then, my current partner of 5 years and I have no formal Facebook ‘relationship’ preferring to show our affection in person. But relationship incidents are on the rise on the platform and here are two examples that are ending in litigation.
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How to unfollow friends and delete your digital footprint.

May 16, 2012 / posted in Blog-Assignment, Social Media / No Comments

Originally posted February 10, 2012 as part of a blogging assignment for my post-graduate program. I’ve decided to redirect all posts to here to keep things consistent.

Recently, on the advice of an instructor and the nagging voice in the back of my head that kept telling me to “cover my tracks”, I embarked on a virtual trek to delete old, dusty accounts attached to my name or my aliases. Along the way I found accounts connected to social buying sites such as Livingsocial, music sites like Last.fm and corporate sites I’d joined to vote for contests. After my hard work, when you google my name you find ten carefully curated accounts that represent the way I wish to be viewed online. Applause.
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The Internet: Trusting a secret with thousands of friends

May 15, 2012 / posted in Blog-Assignment, Life / No Comments

Originally posted February 7, 2012 as part of a blogging assignment for my post-graduate program. I’ve decided to redirect all posts to here to keep things consistent.

For the next few weeks I will be blogging as part of an assignment for my Corporate Communications and Public Relations program. We’re required to post about social media, PR, items of general interest and about ourselves. Of the requirements, I find it the most difficult to blog about myself, which inspired this, my first post, a comment on the impact that negative responses to a blog can have on your output. In my case, it changed my creative direction to this day.
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