Borges and Calvino

What would I give to know what these two giants were talking about. Maybe discussing the loneliness of the goal keeper?

Why security is important

Why is it so that suddenly everybody seems to be obsessed with privacy? Has privacy become an issue only now that we can blog? Yes, in a way this is exactly so. Twenty or thirty years ago, there was only one way to find out someone's address: looking up the name on the phonebook and hoping that the landline phone was on that person's name. Today not only there are many more ways to find out one's address - finding an address in itself wouldn't be so bad - but with available technology and avaliability of big data we can today not only find one person's real address, but also a whole range of other information, such as look of the house where the person lives, where the person works, where the person goes to have dinner, shopping, reading etc. This is made possible by the almost omnipresent (and often 'public' by default) privavcy settings in the dozens of social media that pervade our lives. Snap a dish of pasta carbonara on Instagram, to show off your newly found Italian restaurant, and you are also sharing a whole lot more than that. So the message is clear: we are still very green as social media users and we should learn to create an automatic mechanism to protect ourselves.

Strange how suddenly, after finally opening a facebook account (purely for research reasons), out of the blue friends pop up again. Facebook is a pop up media.

Will Eisner's biography

Today I finished reading Will Eisner's biography. I wish that libraries had more of his graphic novels available. I mean, after all the guy invented graphic novels!

Good lesson today

After resisting all these years, today I finally started to read the most famous book in the world: Facebook. Still not 100% sure whether it is a nove, a comedy or a whodoneit. 

Lupo Cieco @ Facebook