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The Word: Publicy

You’ll have seen this word flying about recently and it’s time for some explanations. Err… don’t you mean ‘publically’? ['publicly' if you're American] No. Well, in some ways, yes, I do. Let me explain. In the past, there has been an assumption that privacy was the default state of human existence. It was only when you, someone or [...]
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25/M/S or Maybe Not

via Richard Sambrook and David Brain, here’s a great presentation from the Lift conference, given by Genevieve Bell, who works as an anthropologist at Intel: It’s about how we all lie online in terms of the way we present ourselves, or rather, that we’ve been lying about ourselves for an awful long time – how we [...]
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