Deborah, I'm right there with you on this recommendation (except for the psycho
ex -- mine have all been relatively sound of mind. Then again, they dated
me...). But my concern is not that someone looking at my aggregated published
ramblings would draw much more of a conclusion other than "he's not shy". My
concern is that the people mining this are not the ones you're worrying about.
They're the ones who want to target me -- and my community - for financial
purposes, be they marketing goods or whatever. I don't think a potential
employer is going to find the tweet I sent about preferring Bert Jansch to Nick
Drake objectionable, and anyone who wouldn't hire me because of my politics
would probably already banish me for my current gig (we sue the Bush
administration regularly). But I don't want them to learn enough about me and
who I associate with that they would come to you - a frequent online associate
of mine - and suggest that you do business with them based on our mutual
friendship or my recommendation. They could lie fairly convincingly based on
information that they could mine online about me.

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Peter Campbell
IT Director, Earthjustice
http://www.earthjustice.org
"Because the earth needs a good lawyer"

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