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Pat Walshe aka @privacymatters and fellow professional all of all things on privacy and Identity, is currently cycling the 1000 miles from John O'Groats at the top of Scotland to Land's End at the bottom of England.  He is cycling to raise awareness and funds for two charities that help grieving children and people battling facial cancer and is doing it in memory of his sister who died some time ago aged 42 after battling facial cancer and who left behind two children.  His  blog at   http://cyclingformargaret.wordpress.com / for more information and on twitter @end2end_2011 http://twitter.com/#!/end2end_2011   Pat started cycling on Sunday 24th July and am now on day 4 having covered 330 miles, climbed over 12500 feet, burned 16,500 calories and spent 26 hours in the saddle in total. 8 more days to go. Can you support, by:- spreading the word via social media etc – this will really help drive interest donating at  http://www.justgiving.com/le...

Where does the balance lie between an individual's right to privacy and the public's right to know? http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2011/06/the_privacy_commission.shtml   The BBC has interviews with : Hugh Tomlinson QC , Zac Goldsmith MP , Max Mosley , Stephen Abell , Hugh Grant , Sir Charles Gray , Alan Rusbridger , Helen Wood , Max Clifford , Marcus Partington , John Kampfner , Christopher Graham , Louise Mensch , Andy Trotter , John Mullin , Avril Sanders Royle , Jimmy Wales You can  read more about the Commissioners here. The  draft terms of reference  are now available on the PM blog, and listeners have a week to  offer suggestions and alterations  for the Commission to consider, as well as proposals for witnesses. Evidence sessions will begin in mid-June. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2011/06/the_privacy_commission.shtml

Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet by William H. Davidow, January 2011. This books needs to be set in context of other books like The Shallows by  Nicholas Carr ,  Clay Shirky 's Cognitive Surplus, Kevin Kelly's  What Technology Wants and Delete by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger   as they tend to bias towards the way technology affects the way we think or have actually recreated how we think. Overconnected, is not about email, iPhones and the other distractions that seem to direct our modern lives. William Davidow is focussed on how strong connections, instead of idyllically solving problems, and what they mean. Being connected has certainly made us more efficient. But there's now the risk of reacting so quickly that we don't give the thought we might have given to our actions and reactions even twenty years ago. Strong connections, it is presented, have only magnified the problems, turning local proble...

The McKinsey report on Big Data is here in various formats along with podcast http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/index.asp

From Search Engine land

At the very bottom, after a Google search, you can View Customisations and this allows you to search without the improvements (of your web history)

“It’s been amazing to see all the ways that companies are leveraging the API. From hotels instantly upgrading rooms at check-in to call centers routing calls appropriately and thousands of companies using integration partners like Radian 6, Seesmic, Hootsuite, CoTweet, about.me and others to provide heightened levels of customer service to key influencers. Klout has become a must have for any company dealing with support, customer loyalty, and directed offers. It makes us proud to know that with every API call an influencer is being rewarded. We can’t wait to see what innovation the next 2 billion API calls bring!” http://corp.klout.com/blog/2011/07/two-billion-is-cool/