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@SimonWoods 4real Simon. I think my ingrained imagining of information navigation as some machete though the jungle exercise isn’t necessarily the best way to get to the knowledge, and can be off-putting to folks who might be of assistance getting there.

(side-note: my son would interject here “You need to be off pudding!” and we would laugh and laugh.)

@bkryer consider that 5 ys of credit card xactions is magnitudes more valuable than your potential reaction to a potential situation. If only for reasons of personal safety I wouldn’t mind knowing before hand that 8 square blocks were going to be used to demonstrate some strong emotions for the next 24hrs+. I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, you see, and might not want to walk through. Or maybe my kids don’t…and so on.

@bkryer @cleverdevil @cygnoir @darby3 @pcora @camacho @JohnPhilpin

I mean, if this makes folks uncomfortable, consider what companies with years of accumulated data are doing privately to improve their market positions. Consider bundles of collections, like securities. But nary a word…

@JohnPhilpin Well I think I saw it earlier. Feedly saying “hey, we have these packets of info to buy”…as creepy as it maybe….

@bkryer @cleverdevil @cygnoir @darby3 @pcora @camacho @JohnPhilpin

I’m not unhappy that they are selling this information to the general public. I’m happy to know about these potentialities—I might want to join in, or avoid, for many different reasons.

What is the outrage pointed at…capitalism generally? Opportunistic software makers?

btw, I am educate-able. see footnotes just about everywhere.

@cleverdevil Travel, facilities management, and many other support orgs, have been doing this sort of analysis forever. This just seems like opportunistic point and panic please look at me, look at me!

@odd I wish I knew. Posted in related thread(s) some gibberish which, upon re-reading, make me sound a libertarian-loon. Put problem in money machine, out comes out-comes!
I do have the impression that Americans prefer for private orgs to fulfill government tasking when possible. I have been adjacent to more than a few orgs involved with production and archiving of data of a nature that had me thinking “hmmm, don’t we have a need for non-market imperatives here?”, quickly followed by “uh, I don’t need to answer that question to get paid.”
And of course glib won’t stop the bleeding…sigh.

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