Look, folks! We just blogged this month on the subject of Creative Piracy, and now here we have International Data Privacy Day. Let's face it, personal identifying data is in as much danger on the Internet as is creative production, is it not? Hence the proliferation of identity theft.
I found these articles while reading a new article on protecting ourselves from privacy violations on the ubiquitous Facebook. Check these out and ponder:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/privacy_facebook_and_the_future_of_the_inte...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/01/privacyday.php

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/01/never-mind-valley-beijing.php
 

Howard Zinn, the historian who authored A People's History of the United States, is dead at his home at age 87. Mr. Zinn did not just research and recount history; he lived it. I recommend reading some of the news articles on him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/28zinn.html?em
 

Yesterday marked the 65th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in Poland.

Please join me in a (belated) moment of silence as we remember those who died, and those who, incredibly survived. Some survivors are still alive, memories intact.

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Death-Camp-Survivors-Mark-Auschwitz-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/opinion/29pisar.html?ref=global-home


 

At age 91, reclusive for the past 50 years, seminal author J. D. Salinger is dead. Author of the book that encapsulated a generation in the 1950's, Catcher in the Rye, and of ̶0;Franny and Zooey," “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction,” and "Nine Stories," Salinger changed a generation's literature, then virtually "disappeared from sight," eschewing fame.

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-salinger29-2010jan29,0,578438.story

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html?ref=todayspaper

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