February 19th, 2012 - 1:42 pm
February 2012
Given renewed concerns and confusion about personal privacy, the link this month is http://duckduckgo.com
In all common search engines, from Google to Yahoo, the company that provides the service also gathers data on your requests to make a profile. Some argument is made that this helps tailor the results to meet your needs. Critics point out that the companies are keeping large amounts of data on each user that can be sold to business interests or other groups.
One great way to “duck” this privacy concern is by using DuckDuckGo.com which vows to never gather data or keep a profile on the user. This also means that everyone will get the same result from any inquiries made through DuckDuckGo. If you enter a request to Google on, say, “DOGS,” your results will be based on your previous searches.
It’s up to each of us what we need for our own searching, but being part of an informed democracy means we all must be aware of what our choices mean for our privacy.
Link Here | Nov 29, 2012,
Dear Sirs:
My mother recently edited and published a book entitled “Shouts & Whispers” . This painstaking work is a transcription of
letters from her great grandfather to his wife as he served in the Union army during the American Civil War. The soldier,
D.D. Priest, was in the Vermont 2nd Company I from Bull Run in 1861 through Spotsylvania where he was wounded in 1864.
This book is a must read for the Civil War buff and just a good, effortless read in general. This man intended for the letters to be saved
and makes many references to people, places, and things during the war that make it come alive. There are eighty letters.
My mother, Nancy D. Wilson is a M.A. English and taught high school for thirty years. The letters were handed down from her mother
and she still is in possession of the originals. Her motive for publishing was not profit, however, there is a cost of publication. The book
is available on Amazon for a reasonable price of $20.00.
Nancy is a native Vermonter and graduate of U.V.M. Class of ‘59
ISBN-13
URL 978-1475041040
Princeton, The University of Vermont, and Syracuse University have ordered theirs.
Whatever method you use to acquire new material can be accommodated.
Contact me: Charles Wilson Phone 518.648.0324 cedarriv@gmail.com
or my mother: Nancy Wilson 518.793.9472 nwilson@nycap.rr.com
Thank you,
Charles R. Wilson
Comment by Charles WIlson |