[Imc-web] Re: [IMC-Tech] Adding Tags to Articles

[David Gehrig]

Mike, don't know who put them up, but it's not me.

We've already had a problem with someone deciding to hang
something on UCIMC that exposed IP addresses to the public.
We should discuss this on Wednesday. My view is that IP
addresses shouldn't be exposed outside the site, and they
should only be exposed to the Web folks to the minimum
degree possible to fight spammers.

The trade-off, of course, is that we don't want to
ghetto-ize ourselves either by locking ourselves out of
major services.

Either way, I've changed a setting to turn off the
google link and not to display the logos.

On 6/10/07, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Doing a little research, I came across these links:
> http://digg.com/privacy
> http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2006/06/03/web_2_privacy/1
>
> del-icio.us is associated with Yahoo, which has long been infamous for
> its exploitation of user data through web beacons:
> http://del.icio.us/help/privacy
>
> technorati
> http://technorati.com/about/privacy.html
>
> The Google thing seems associated with the Google blog mechanism. Google
> has some big issues with privacy, too, and providing a direct link from
> an IMC seems problematic.
>
> Interesting comments on the issue as a whole:
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openyou_the_limits_of_privacy.php
>
> All in all, this makes the IMC site seem to look like a blog, even
> though we've got consensus that IMC is NOT a blog. Having these tags on
> the site will tend to encourage blog-type behavior, something which
> we've been struggling with  lately, even though we've explicitly
> rejected blogging as part of the main news site.
>
> Note that I do not object to setting up a separate UC IMC blog, if some
> members feel we need it. But I think that making the IMC news page look
> like a blog is a mistake.
> Mike Lehman
>
> Mike Lehman wrote:
> > I see that we suddenly have a variety of Google, Digg, Technorati, etc
> > tags added to articles on the website. I have a several concerns about
> > these.
> >
> > 1. They all seem to require user registration and this will presumably
> > compromise the privacy of those who use them on our site.
> >
> > 2.Having them on IMC makes us a party to their marketing efforts. This
> > seems to be a questionable policy for an IMC to engage in.
> >
> > 3. Does the software involved in these report or log IPs in any
> > fashion? I presume they do, given Google record on this.
> >
> > Since most internet users can presumably use the regular Google
> > search, I question the need for these additions, particularly so if
> > they raise privacy concerns as they seem to.
> > Mike Lehman
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