Letters from Utopia

07/28/2019

Mmn

08/28/2014

I find it strange that, after notifying Facebook of my intention to sue them in small claims court over their mind-control experiment, my activity log does not quite match my wall... Posts specifically arguing that there is some type of CIA/DOD connection to the experiment have mysteriously disappeared. I only just noticed because I am printing out news articles in preparation for court. The question remains... Paranoia or reality?

08/28/2014

WTF!!! a prior Facebook experiment affected voter turnout?

A large study of Facebook users found that a “get out the vote” message using pictures of friends got 340,000 additional people to the polls.

08/22/2014

More social network data trolls (or was it tools?) exposed...

http://derp.institute/

The Digital Ecologies Research Partnership (DERP) is a joint initiative to promote academic inquiry into social dynamics of the web.

08/22/2014

From a zen garden to a pet rabbit, at first, no silly luxury was spared for a co-working space set up by two Dutch designers. But soon, things started...

08/22/2014

Scientists can now analyze the personal data on millions of people without their knowledge, and some want to bring ethical guidelines to such studies.

08/22/2014

"...Facebook has been heavily criticized for its experiments, with 84 percent of surveyed users saying they had lost trust in Facebook, and 66 percent claiming they considered deleting their Facebook account because of it. Though it’s too soon to say what effect this all could have on people’s willingness to continue using Facebook, this shows that a company’s reputation is something you might not want to experiment with..."

In the era of big data and analytics, the conventional wisdom seems to be that businesses should try lots of different things, test the results and continuously optimize to develop new innovations and better customer experiences. But some companies may be taking this advice a little too far.

08/22/2014

"I simply stated that I no longer wanted to be as active a participant in teaching Facebook how to advertise to me as I had been in the past..."

a hopeful look at what happens when you quit the Like

08/20/2014

good-ol SC-100... SC-100, you are my only hope...

http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/sc100.pdf

08/20/2014

I just found a new way to serve facebook! You know, instead of giving them a complete life history...

08/20/2014

More on how to serve corporations in CA...not breakfast...

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CCP&division=&title=5.&part=2.&chapter=4.&article=4.

A summons may be served on a corporation by delivering a copy of the summons and the complaint by any of the following methods:

08/20/2014

rules for serving corporations in California...

Information about service of process on a business entity.