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Ari and Mohammed are now friends

March 7, 2010 – 4:04 am

The Israeli military cancelled a planned raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook.
The unnamed soldier revealed the time and place of the raid and the name of his unit on the social networking site. He said on his status update that his unit planned a [...]

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The wolf and the lamb

August 24, 2009 – 11:32 am

I am generally a pretty gentle person. The other day, my daughter found a spider in the corridor, and I guided it into a glass and tipped it out on the veranda. I have difficulty hurting things.
However, everyone has something which pushes their buttons. For me, it’s bullying. A British teenager has become the first [...]

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Social networking technology and employers

August 18, 2009 – 3:43 pm

Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine. They’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, it’s not my problem.
Bladerunner, 1982
Very much the same thing could be said about social networking technology as about replicants. The technology can have both positive and negative ramifications.
A few times over the last week, I’ve read articles [...]

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Through a glass, darkly

April 22, 2009 – 9:48 am

An online persona is an interesting thing – a reflection of the self in a very public forum. One of my old bosses used to say, “Never write anything in a file of which you’d be ashamed if it needed to be produced before the Court.” I tend to employ the same principle with regard [...]

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