According to Google, here’s My Year’s Highlights

Google made this for me. It chose from all photos I uploaded this year, then cut them into 43 seconds of this.

I use Google+ for all my blog photos.

So if you go into my account here @KeriBlog, you can view my blog in only photos, divided by month & year. There’s almost 7,000 photos.

Not a bad follower-to-views ratio.

Terrible introduction though. I’m worse at Google+ than Facebook, which is horrible.

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Security aside – Google+ made a similar video for me last year. Except that video included one private image, proving why to never upload a compromising photo; here’s the post.

(always remember, Google never forgets)

 

 

Licence Plate Snitching Websites are Dirty

 Read in online at Autonet.ca

For this week’s column, I wrote about a new type of website – don’t like how someone is driving? Take a photo of their licence plate and car, upload it to one of these websites, and broadcast what you think for all the world to see.

This is dirty, and really, who are you to judge?

From a distance, someone driving to the hospital while under medical duress, might appear the same as a drunk driver. Not linking to those sites.

Favourite lines:

All so you can what, be a tattle-tale? A budget vigilante?

and:

2 of my favourite internet lines – ‘the internet is forever’ & ‘Google never forgets’

I was in Oregon with Acura when this printed, so being 3 hours behind I woke up to discover this column was a topic on the radio show AM 640!

(non-Toronto people, this is one of the most popular talk-radio shows)

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Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index

 

 

Don’t Want it Public? Don’t Post It

Above is me deleting a photo from my Picasa Google + photo account. See the asterisk?

“It may take 24 hours for this photo to be deleted”

And that’s Google; they have more servers than anyone. A smaller site might take longer. Plus, 24 hours in internet time is forEVER.

During that time, the photo could be crawled by bots, screen-capped, something like this could happen:

Years ago, my ‘Following on Twitter’ list backed up to my Blackberry, photos included. 

What if your profile pic is online for that brief moment, where someone somewhere, backs up?

Maybe you’re thinking: a 2 KB photo is too small to matter.

It is small, but it’s enough.

If you’re on Twitter in Toronto (and beyond), I bet you could identify everyone above, with that 2 KB.