Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

 [i d e a n t] Tag Literacy: There is no authority ””human or computational”” passing judgment on the appropriateness or validity of tags, because tags have to make sense first and foremost to the individual who assigns and uses them. And yet, the whole point of distributed classification systems (DCSs) such as del.icio.us and flickr is that the aggregation of inherently private goods (tags and what they describe) has public value: When people use the same tag to point to different resources they are organizing knowledge in a manner, commonly referred to as a folksonomy, that makes sense to them and to others like them. In other words, the tag is the object that brings a resource and a social group together via the shared meaning of a word (although tags also serve to form connections between words and new meanings, as for example when you encounter a link to the Center for Alternative Technology when looking at the tag 'cat').

[Rfidgazette.org] RFID Gazette: For over a year, airlines such as Delta have been implementing or at least experimenting with RFID systems in attempts to reduce their lost luggage bill. After facing a massive baggage loss of 11,000 last year due to employee strikes, British Airways has now joined the list of airlines supporting the introduction of RFID.  Rod Eddington, CEO of British Airways, also advocates a universal system among airlines to avoid interoperability problems between carriers. Currently, British Airways looses 18 out of every 1,000 pieces of luggage and reimburses customers an average of  £55 for each piece.

 [About-cnet.com.com] RFID | News.blog | CNET News.com: The company's Speedway Reader, coming out in the second quarter, can read 1,500 tags a second, he said. The Gen 2 spec also gives the person controlling the tags the ability to kill them, thereby helping with privacy concerns. The tags can also be read at a distance of 30 feet, which is further away than current RFID tags can be read.

[Chapellassociates.com] Chapell Blog: This situation is, at best, a mixed bag (see Wal-Mart's RFID plans will fail, and RFID doesn't work - so live with it!).  It would not be quite so bad if vendors of RFID products and companies that say they want to use them better understood security and privacy.For those of you who have been cave dwellers over the last few years, RFIDs are small electronic devices, normally with no battery or power supply, that can interact wirelessly to identify themselves to a scanner. The best-known examples are the very simple devices that companies such as Wal-Mart are asking suppliers to put on pallets of goods and that drug companies are beginning to attach to containers in the distribution chain.

[Blog.librarylaw.com] LibraryLaw Blog: Privacy:    1798.9.  (a) For purposes of this article, the followingdefinitions shall apply: "Contactless integrated circuit" means adata carrying unit, such as an integrated circuit or computer chipthat can be read remotely.(b)  "Identity" means any name, number, ordata transmission that may be used alone or in conjunction with anyother information, to identify a specific individual.   (c) "Identity document" means any document that an individual usesto establish his or her identity that contains one or more items ofpersonal information. Identity documents specifically include, butare not limited to, the following:   (1) Driver's licenses or identification cards.   (2) Identification cards for employees or contractors.   (3) Identification cards issued by educational institutions.   (4) Health insurance or benefit cards.   (5) Benefit cards issued in conjunction with anygovernment-supported aid program.   (6) Licenses, certificates, registration, or other means to engagein a business or profession regulated by the California Business andProfessions Code.   (7) Library cards issued by any public library.   (d) "Personal information" includes any of the following: anindividual's name, address, telephone number, date of birth, race,religion, ethnicity, nationality, photograph, fingerprint or otherbiometric image of the individual, social security number, or anyother unique personal identifier or number.   (e) "Remotely" means that no physical contact between theintegrated circuit or device and a reader is necessary in order totransmit data.   1798.10.  No identity document created, mandated, or issued by thestate, county, or municipal government, or subdivision or agencythereof shall contain a contactless integrated circuit or otherdevice that can broadcast personal information or enable personalinformation to be scanned remotely.  SEC. 4.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 ofArticle XIII B of the California Constitution because the only coststhat may be incurred by a local agency or school district will beincurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction,eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crimeor infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the GovernmentCode, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning ofSection 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.   

 [Bazac.blogspot.com] Bazac Weblog, blog about the Search Engines, SEO/SEM...: To clarify this issue, Pew Internet conducted a survey that measured the state of blogging and how it impacts the average American Internet user. The determinations from Pew's survey reveal that while blog readership continues to increase (by 58% according to the study), the average American Internet user does not know what a blog is.”

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