Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Week Eight Discovery Exercise

Assignment: 1. Write about the Mashup you found on your blog. 2. Browse the results [from Rollyo] and write something about what these bloggers said about privacy in your blog.

1. I looked at HealthMap, which incorporates Google Maps with medical news releases, such as Google News, ProMed, World Health Organization, and EuroSurveillance. According to this handy tool, there was an outbreak of hepatitis in Tennessee late last month, and mumps, norovirus, and and salmonella have been reported in Ohio. Interesting tool.

2. The results weren't suprising. Basically, there is limited, if any, privacy these days. Especially in the online world, privacy shouldn't be assumed. I'm not saying we shouldn't be vigilant to protect privacy, but we should use good sense and know that privacy doesn't exist in the way that it did before the internet.

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