My latest article is in this week's The Georgia Straight in all the finest newspaper boxes around Vancouver and on-line [tgs]. This one was a bit trickier to get my head around, because while I know what "open" means when it comes to having social networks like Twitter, Facebook and the like be more open not everyone agrees what that means. For some people it's part of a larger view that all information should be open, while to others it's a call for users to actually have more control over their data and privacy than they do now.
So some people are for more privacy, others are for less, and yet they're all on the same side.
The other issue was that it's hard to get the other side of the argument. Facebook never got back to me, and nobody is going to really stand up for less openness and user control over data but yet there may be legitimate reasons that it's necessary sometimes. These might not be the strongest reasons, but it's a bit hard to look at an issue objectively when one side really won't talk.
I'm happy with how the article ended up though, and it's a case where it was nice to have an edit on it to help focus it a bit and make sure that I was making sense to anyone aside from myself.
