If you're coming here via the CBC Daybreak show this morning, here are some relevant links you might be interested in:

• The original post I wrote complaining about the inability to delete Facebook accounts - warning: strong language and vitriol...
• New York Times piece about Facebook's privacy policy, referencing my article
• Great article in The Guardian about exactly what's so wrong with Facebook
• Follow-up article in the New York Times about Facebook backing off on holding on to user accounts indefinitely (but still not allowing you to close your account yourself)
• Interesting and educational video about the process and people behind Facebook
• Reactions to my article from around the web
• Overview of various Facebook Privacy Policy responses
• All of my [mostly] non-Facebook Montreal related posts

Apart from my apparent inability to pronounce "irrevocable", that went rather well.

Just a quick note to let y'all know that I'll be speaking on CBC's Daybreak tomorrow (Thursday) morning at about 7:40 AM.

It's at 88.5 on the FM dial for those of you who don't know. You can also listen live online on the Daybreak website if you're not local.

I'll be talking about Internet policy, privacy, and - you guessed it - Facebook.

Following Maria Aspan's excellent article in the New York Times, Facebook has apparently softened their Draconian stance on not letting users leave Facebook. They went from making it impossible to delete your account to making it only slightly less cumbersome.

This is, of course, not nearly enough.

I don't listen to podcasts much. I don't feel like I can make time to listen to any of them. Both Amarok and Banshee have very solid podcasting clients, but when will I listen to them? I listen to MP3s when I'm working because I can't focus on anything else, since my multitasking abilities are limited to chewing bubble gum and kicking ass. At the gym I need my angry angsty pop-metal or 2Pac to keep me motivated, and in the car I only listen to CKOI because the hosts are awesomely hilarious, they play the best new francophone music, and anglophone radio sucks the big one in Montreal.

Sometimes I'll visit a site with a podcasting section and play something that looks interesting through the flash player in the browser, but I'm not "subscribed" to any podcasts. Well, I wasn't until I found the Free Library of Philadelphia Podcast:

I was actually trying to make it to Yunus' talk at the Free Library in Philly last week (for free!), but it didn't work out. Then, poking around a little, I found that the library records most of the talks and puts them up on their podcast for anyone to download. I've been hooked on these for the past week - Anthony Bourdain's and J. Craig Venter's are particularly fantastic.

I've only listened to about half of them so far, but I'm definitely going to work my way down the list.

Ok, fine, podcasting doesn't always suck - when I can sit still for long enough to listen to them.