Kellog's Cracklin' Oat Bran Cereal

Part 2 of Marc Smith's interview on Social Networking is again, loaded with the implications of our digital age.

Not only will your palm pilot and cell phone be able to tell you more about the people you have walked by, interacted with, and spent time in the same room as, it will share information with you. Just by adding a lense to your cell phone, it will be able to give you more information about a book or label on a product than you can get by reading it.

His example is his favorite Kellog's cereal. When he scanned the bar code with his cell phone in a nearby grocery store, he discovered that the cereal had been recalled, and should not be on the shelf. The reason? The ingredients label neglected to include milk, eggs, and almonds, poisen to anyone allergic to them.

I was also struck by his observation that over 90% of undergraduates in this country have a FaceBook or MySpace account, sharing with anyone at all, their most personal secrets. If we were required, by law, to share this information, we would protest, yet millions of Americans willingly create space that "tells all." What does this say about protecting privacy?

He identifies these blogs as "a new form of clothing" telling more than one could fit on a T-shirt.

Ahhh, life in the information age, it just keeps getting more and more interesting.

Now for your favorite part of this blog, the garden. Well, the rabbits obviously didn't get enough clover from the yard, so they ate the parsley in the garden. What next?

Until later...