Comments on: Moblogging in war-zone http://ipears.com/net/moblogging-in-war-zone/ Jan van Iperen: person in progress Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:51:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Erik http://ipears.com/net/moblogging-in-war-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-587 Erik Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:58:50 +0000 http://ipears.com/2006/08/01/blogs-podcasts-very-effective-sales-leads/#comment-587 As I see it i use this analogy: Sailors aren’t afraid of storms, they learn to live with them them, learn to handle them and/or build better ships. The same can be said about wars. They will probably come, but we will need to learn how to deal with them. Going on to the privacy issue which I addressed in a blog on the geospatial web: "Answer these questions: Do you really want everyone to know where you are, have been and also keep track of that. What stops your boss to install this on your cellphone? What are the long term consequences? Do we really want to live in a big brother society? Are there enough advantages to overlook the dangers? I see this a broader debate on the web as whole. However, developers and solution architects need to start to think in these paths. The sense I got from talking to some developers at the conference and outside is that many developers tend to hide from addressing these issues. I think of a quote from the one of the managers at Google Earth (commenting something else though): “Just because you can do it, does not mean that you should do it…” Unfortunately there are a lot of developers that do this big mistake." The full blog is found here: http://inthefieldonline.net/blog/2006/06/18/where-is-the-geospatial-web-heading/ As I see it i use this analogy: Sailors aren’t afraid of storms, they learn to live with them them, learn to handle them and/or build better ships. The same can be said about wars. They will probably come, but we will need to learn how to deal with them.

Going on to the privacy issue which I addressed in a blog on the geospatial web:
“Answer these questions: Do you really want everyone to know where you are, have been and also keep track of that. What stops your boss to install this on your cellphone? What are the long term consequences? Do we really want to live in a big brother society? Are there enough advantages to overlook the dangers?

I see this a broader debate on the web as whole. However, developers and solution architects need to start to think in these paths. The sense I got from talking to some developers at the conference and outside is that many developers tend to hide from addressing these issues. I think of a quote from the one of the managers at Google Earth (commenting something else though): “Just because you can do it, does not mean that you should do it…” Unfortunately there are a lot of developers that do this big mistake.”

The full blog is found here:
http://inthefieldonline.net/blog/2006/06/18/where-is-the-geospatial-web-heading/

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