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

[Mike Lehman]

David,
I noted the tags are gone, but we still have hyperlinks to three of the 
former four tags, just beneath the "Bookmark/Search this post with:"

This may need some additional adjustment.
Mike Lehman

David Gehrig wrote:
> 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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