Watching the remarkable Xeni Jardin tweet her mammogram and cancer diagnosis, then blog eloquently about it, then crowdsource opening up her own MRI data makes me ask: Why are we so secretive about sickness and health? And what do we lose because we are?
Jeff Jarvis | Posted 08.31.2011
I fear we are on the verge of fetishizing privacy. Well, we're not -- but our media and government are.
Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.25.2011
At a privacy conference, one vendor said 500 million people were on Facebook. Then he paused and said, "Scary." In the discussion of the social web in this industry, all you have to do is say people are using these mysterious tools, and the fear is assumed.
Jeff Jarvis | Posted 02.29.2012