On Sundays I plan to offer comments on some of the most interesting information technology stories that I have found on the web that week.  Please feel free to join in the discussion or suggest stories during the week. ROI Cartoon

PC Pro Magazine: Angry villagers run Google Street View out of town

This is a very real and very interesting divide shaping up in our modern world. On one side there are those who believe that "you cannot stop the signal", individual privacy is dead, and it is your IT duty to Twitter every single thought that you have. On the other are those who simply don’t buy it. This story is an example of what happens when those two camps clash. One never likes to see violence erupt…especially when it is just some minimum wage car driver who takes the blame for a multi-billion dollar companies decisions…

WSJ.com’s All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher: Sorry to Get You All A-Twitter, but Google Is Not in “Late-Stage Talks” to Acquire the Hot Microblogging Service

Well, one cannot be an Information Professional without thinking that Twitter is the next big thing. It is on everyone’s lips because it is a disruptive, transformational, game-changing new digital communication method that is evolving through many generations right before your eyes, one internet time. Google is of course the ten thousand pound gorilla in the revolution in technology camp. This seems like a match made in heaven. I would not be surprised at all to see this come to pass…

guardian.co.uk: The end of privacy?

This story also refers to Google, but as a villain. This story discusses all of the latest upgrades to Google Maps that revolve around location based services and social networking enhancements. If you are not familiar with these new features, I highly recommend that you give them a whirl. Together with Google Earth, I think this application speaks volumes about Web 3.0, Google’s long term ambitions, and our future as a society. As I mentioned about, "you cannot stop the signal", privacy looks to be dying, and if you are not telling the world what you think on Twitter, you had better be doing it on Google’s new features!

So I shared my opinions on these thought provoking stories… what do you think about them?

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 5, 2009 ©Scott Coughlin .