Privacy 2.0

I love it when blog posts incorporate video!  I don’t think I’ll ever get into exclusive vlogging, but I do enjoy the YouTube videos or blip.tv clips that people sometimes include with a blog post.

Anyway, Jessamyn West got snagged by Library Journal and was asked some questions about privacy, the (to some people) fetishization thereof, and the role that librarians can play in handling, protecting, and (perhaps) rethinking how we approach privacy and privacy concerns.

I really, really like what she says, especially the part toward the end about moving toward a new consideration of privacy and how we as librarians can approach it.  (Although I’ll be honest, I shuddered a little when she used the term “two point oh,” if only because the term seems so ubiquitous these days. But thankfully, she uses it  — as far as I’m concerned – in the right way and in a different context than what I’m used to.)  I really wish I could have heard what Cory Doctorow and the rest of the panel had to say.  Thankfully the blogs that I follow have been providing some excellent feedback on the ALA conference for people like me who wish we were there.

And as an aside, I really like how podcasts and videoblogs can humanize simple text.  For example, librarian.net is one of the blogs that got me into libraries and blogging, but I never really thought about what Jessamyn’s voice sounded like.  Of course, I’m also one of those people who can’t help but hear someone’s voice when I read what they write, which is, of course, the case with other bloggers that I’ve already met, whether through work, class, or something else. 

I know just about everyone hates the sound of their own voice, but it does make me wonder what some of you other bloggers out there sound like.