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Issues and Actions

Privacy 101: Has Google Buzz Broken The Rules?

I am hoping to cover the issues & actions that affect media, particularly Indie & Truly Free Film, a little bit more fully this year.  We’ll see…

Privacy is certainly the battlefield of the next few years.

The NY Times today published: “Critics Say Google Invades Privacy With New Service” .  It starts off:

When Google introduced Buzz — its answer toFacebook and Twitter — it hoped to get the service off to a fast start. New users of Buzz, which was added to Gmail on Tuesday, found themselves with a ready-made network of friends automatically selected by the company based on the people that each user communicated with most frequently through Google’s e-mail and chat services.

Read the whole article here.

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Bowl Of Noses

Styles Of Animation #11: Dancing Statues!

Where does art come from?  Why the art that came before it, of course!  We see something, and are inspired by it.  We customize it.  We do a mod.  We build on the work that got their earlier.