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Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram
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Re: Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure. I suppose part of the problem is that we talk about privacy, when really it's publicity that has changed. The situation where basically every individual can create recordings and publish them to the entire world is actually somewhat novel. We reach for analogies about privacy, but really we need to think about what sort of rights people have to their own publicity.
What about the idea that maybe our ideas of privacy / publicity are shaped by what we're used to rather than any universal laws. In other words, if we were to grow up in a society that didn't experience much privacy maybe we'd just accept it as the norm. I'm not making a judgement which is better. The old way or some other way. Only trying to point out the fact that we had more privacy in the past isn't in and of its…
I think people like yourself who acknowledge the situation we find ourselves today in context to what has come before is probably the best thing an individual can do to rid themselves of their cognitive dissonance.
I think that is preferable than to join the choir of whining isn't taking steps to protect themselves and their communications with others when they feel is necessary, insisting that others to protect it for them, and not change their behaviors. All of which enable others to capitalize.
Then again, some people may not want to rid themselves as such. Maybe they enjoy being tortured by the way reality presents itself to them.
Re: Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram
#43If I had an iPhone I'd take a gander. I like http://geophoto.grabeh.net/ for looking at photos around the world, but that may have something do with the fact I built it.
Cool! Does this use the Flickr API?
Indeed it does - via Node.js - the code is here: https://github.com/grabbeh/geoflickr