If this goes even close to the way my summer went, EditThisPage.com better not be running on the edge of capacity... traffic will sky-rocket if this gets into the press and the debate resumes. I'm more ready for it then I was this summer though...

This is timely, now I hope I can write my updated purpose piece, Why Should You Care About This Site? soon. . . and I better link to this site on my Third Voice essay site... done.

Update on yesterday's Alexa story: FTC Investigates Amazon's Alexa Using a packet sniffer to monitor the data travelling between his computer and Alexa's servers, Smith discovered that his full home address had been sent to Alexa while he was using AltaVista's yellow-page service. He also learned that Alexa's servers had received detailed information from an airline ticket purchase he made on Travelocity, and a personal phone call he made to a relative in Florida. Wow!

But the machine is not opaque; the rules today need not be the rules of tomorrow.

Every day, in our increasingly networked world, our freedoms and privacy are being stolen from us. And most of us just let it happen -- most of us tend to accept our computer's workings as immutable, that we are chained to an irrational, vindictive, uncontrollable machine destined to rule over our 9-to-5 days.

I hate linking to stories after they've made the rounds on the other weblogs, but this one is just so perfect, it could replace my Purpose page. Well, pieces of it anyhow. Criminal Code?

Welcome to the web. (The piece's author has sent me a direct link, thanks!)

From MetaFilter, on Feb. 7th: Personal rant time: I wrote my own resume a while ago, and have been building onto it for a couple years now. To me, it is copyrighted material, just as anything else I write. So why is it showing up in all sorts of resume databases? I'm getting calls from recruiters saying they got it from Aquent, Passport Access, and various other resume sites. These sites seem to be sucking down resumes, putting them on their site, and making money off them. I can't see my own resume, since I haven't paid to look at it. I find PassportAccess to be especially annoying: they offer an opt-out page. What the hell? Why should I even have to do this? It's my resume, not theirs!