So good.

This zinger stuck out to me the most: “those who don’t design for readers might soon not be designing for anyone.”

In Twitter’s new privacy policy, they let us know that they are now using those embedded tweet buttons to track our website browsing history and thus offer us tailored suggestions for who to follow.

As Dustin Curtis points out, this is nice for getting more “tailored suggestions”, but what about the privacy issues?

Basically, every time you visit a site that has a follow button, a “tweet this” button, or a hovercard, Twitter is recording your behavior. It is transparently watching your movements and storing them somewhere for later use. Right now, that data will make better suggestions for accounts you might want to follow. But what other things can it be used for? The privacy implications of such behavior by a company so large are sweeping and absolute.

In an update at the bottom of his post, Dustin adds some clarification from Twitter that: (a) they do not and will not sell browsing history to advertisers; and (b) they delete visits to pages within the Twitter ecosystem after 10 days.

Nevertheless, you can disable Twitter Tracking under the “Personalization” option of your top-level Account Settings. I did. Also, as Jeremy Stanley points out, Safari 5.2 will have an option to ask websites not to track you and Twitter honors this request.

Om Malik and Mathew Ingram are posting the best tweets and stories around all the FB chatter.

Jim Dalrymple:

Blogging doesn’t have an agenda, other than expressing your true thoughts on a subject.

Yep.

Droplr, the link-shortening, file-sharing, does-lots-of-cool-things service I’ve been using for as long as I can remember introduced a pro-level account last week. It’s $3/month and gets you a slew of upgrades and expansions over the layman’s account.

Classy.

Fun and candid shots taken during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back. I love the one with Anthony Daniels standing there in his futuristic C-3PO outfit trying to stay cool in the shade by holding that gaudy sun umbrella with the flower print and the tassels.

Wow. Little did I know I was just chipping at the tip of the iceberg with this app.

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Josh Sternberg:

Four years ago, [Atlantic Media’s] traditional-to-digital-audience metrics were at a one-to-one basis, meaning for every traditional reader there was a digital one, according to Justin Smith, president of the Atlantic Media Company. Now, he says, on average, its digital audience is 25 times higher than the print audience.

Sternberg also notes that though Atlantic Media’s digital audience is 25 times larger than their print audience, digital accounts for only half of their advertising revenue.

I just logged in to my Twitter account settings and lo and behold that new checkbox for me to recive that “weekly digest of Stories & Tweets from my network” was enabled by default. Gee, thanks.

This is not that I think Twitter’s new weekly digest is a bad idea, but I’m on Twitter enough as it is and don’t need an email telling me about what I likely already saw. Moreover, it would have been polite of Twitter to let me opt in to the new email list rather than requiring me to opt out.

Seth Godin:

I care a lot about using digital shadows of real world devices because we don’t have the imagination to reinvent them.