Criminals Wear a Mask for a Reason
What’s in a fake name? Do you ever occlude your identity online and have you ever generated a random identity to fool the cyberworld? If yes, why? If not, why not?

What’s in a fake name? Do you ever occlude your identity online and have you ever generated a random identity to fool the cyberworld? If yes, why? If not, why not?

We know “Panopticonic” is not really a word. “Panopticonic” is really a “word” I invented for my Boles Network Blog by the same name. When I started the Panopticonic blog, “Panopticonic” appeared nowhere on the internet and that word failed to return any results in a Google search. I do so love it so, though, when I get a Google Alert in my Inbox showing me that — “Panopticonic” — is being colloquially employed as a “real world” in a real publication like Salon Magazine.

It’s all well and good when celebrities like Wycleff Jean try to make the world a better place by telling other people what to do. Talk is not just cheap, as some say — it is actually free. You can have all the brilliant notions you want and just go around telling people about them, but it won’t actually necessarily make anything happen.
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When I started this Panopticonic blog on November 27, 2008, there was no such word as “Panopticonic” in the world. I invented the meaning of the idea and applied it to an invented word.
I created “Panopticonic” to give this blog a unique meaning in an identifiable niche.
Technology shapes us and betters us, but sometimes it can also belittle our best intentions. The Talking-Points project is a new idea that hopes to use embedded Bluetooth tags placed strategically throughout a city to communicate with the blind to guide and provide geographic landmarks and local business information.

Continue reading → Embedded Bluetooth Breadcrumbs Leading the Blind
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