welcome to my journal!

[thespian]

this was originally posted on May 25, 2009 as a normal entry, but I decided, as I seek work and make plans to enter the educational field, to make it 'the entry everyone sees upon arrival'. I have been keeping this blog, almost daily, for 9 years now. When I began, it was very cutting edge to do this - and I was a cutting edge web developer, so all

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[mangosteen]

We are the interstitial generation. We are the ones who grew up without the Internet, and then ended up having one.

The generation before us didn't expect to have their lives put online and archived, and they're at a point in their lives where it doesn't actually matter, anymore.

The generation after us will be used to having risque pictures from one's youth up for all to see; it's what they do. They'll be completely expected and forgotten (or at least, mentally walled off).

Generation X is in the unenviable position of having employers who will harshly judge anything personal found on the Internet, and having employees who don't see the big deal.

In other words, this is strictly our problem.

[thespian]

One hopes; I came across that quote while putting together notes for what might become a paper extolling the return to 50s values of respecting privacy (it's simply too vague right now, but it deals with paparazzi, and tweeting, and has a weird divergence into the rise of the family sitcom in the late 50s and 60s (needs more consideration, but I wonder if it's easier to snoop in a real private life if you spend an hour or two each week snooping in a fictional one), and blogging and last.fm sites and lots of that

[dcseain]

I have hopes that this be the case. I think it makes sense that this would be the case.

[browngirl]

*makes a note of this*

[bikergeek]

how can you forget Clay Shirky? We met at his apartment. :-)