Media Dojo

Growing up in Tennessee, I often heard my mother use the phrase “livin’ in high cotton” to describe a situation in which you’re the beneficiary of exquisite hospitality. Today, I received the final program schedule for my week in D.C. working on online privacy issues as a Knight Foundation fellow. From trips to the FBI, to a briefing from the Obama Adminstration Office of Science and Technology Policy, to meetings with Google’s Washington handlers as well as the ACLU, I’ll be livin’ in high cotton from Memorial Day.

Jokes aside, I’m honored to be given the chance to take a deep dive into online privacy concepts and policy at such a top level. If we take as given that demographics and activity data form the capital of the interactive world, then privacy becomes one of the core concepts to master. I’m also jazzed at the make-up of the other fellows and their organizations.

Mark my words, children. There’s many a time when you fill out an application with only a sliver of a chance to being accepted. However, the only sure outcome is that you have a 100% probability of nothing happening if you don’t fill out that application. So take a chance. You might end up pleasantly surprised.

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