…the BBC web site ran an interesting piece by Rory Cellan-Jones on Google’s new feature Dashboard. The article is titled My Life Online–Time to Delete? and ponders uploaded information. Dashboard allows one to see what information that one has uploaded to save is associated with what Google feature. Ergo, what you’ve given Google to mind and where Google has put it. It’s a fine check, but as Cellan-Jones reflects, it’s your information out of your hands and in Google’s…forever? Does on want all of one’s online discourse (like this blog post) saved forever?
…the article mentions Viktor Mayer-Schonberger’s book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, which is an extremely well written study of the social utility of forgetting, set against the new digital storage technologies. Well worth the time to read it…