If you're a Google user (any of their products) don't forget that you can review and change your settings for all services you use via the Dashboard. I always forget just how handy the Dashboard is for updating settings across the Googlesphere.https://www.google.com/dashboard/..and don't forget you can turn of search history which directly ties your account to your searching.

Today is social media day (follow it on mashable), like most days, I posted a few new pix http://on.fb.me/i2BShM , did some tweeting, checked in at linkedin, and blogged. So what are you doing? #SMDay

Interesting infographic of the recent sony data breach (1 million passwords) and other large data breaches.http://flowingdata.com/2011/06/13/largest-data-breaches-of-all-time/

really interesting thoughts."Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever? In this special report, newscientist.com editor Sumit Paul-Choudhury – for whom these are not idle questions – reports on life, loss, memory and forgetting in the internet age."http://www.newscientist.com/special/digital-legacy

Interesting article about archiving the digital life of those after they die." When he died, his family were at a loss as to what to do with his digital archives, so they passed them to his friend and former student Jeremy Leighton John, curator of e-manuscripts ("eMSS") at the British Library in London. Hamilton's is one of about a dozen digital legacies curated by John.

On Sunday evenings I often attend a twitter chat called #blogchat. One regular topic is blog review. Bloggers will submit their blogs for review along with either questions for the group or insights into their vision/mission of their blogs.As with all critiques (especially online ones), these can turn personal and even mean-spirited.

Meetings meetings meetings..

• Discussion and ideas for wordpress for the libs blog (already use it; looking to expand it). I'm working on my own domain at the moment. I'm so glad that I have my own webspace, it makes design, templating and well... experimenting much easier. Unfortunately, we don't really have much in the way of a sandbox ; it's just a subdomain of the overall website. So, things don't work like they should in real time, esp. with opensource software. Plus, loading files can sometimes be a real pain in the a$$, because site security is so strong (which is good/bad).

A twitter post (@sabram @eranium) a few weeks ago posited this question:CFO asks CEO "What happens if we invest in developing our people & then they leave us?" CEO: 'What happens if we don't, a

In case you haven't seen the news:Kindle is launching library lending!!!! Read about it here here,  at Amazon's own press releaseor just google it.

I have been to alot of meetings over the years - some great, some not so great, some pointless, some redundant, some effective... Over the years I have gathered together my tactics for both being a participant and being the organizer. Meeting organizersA meeting organizer doesn't even have to be the person in charge of the actual meeting.Organization:

• Agendas. The agenda is the map for the meeting. If it's a collaborative group (committee, project group, etc.) the core agenda should be agreed upon my everyone ahead of time.