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Friday, December 28, 2012
Private picture of Mark Zuckerberg’s family leaked Associated Press Writer
SEATTLE — Even Mark Zuckerberg’s family can get tripped up by Facebook’s privacy settings. A picture that Zuckerberg’s sister posted on her personal Facebook profile was seen by a marketing director, who then posted the picture to Twitter and her more than 40,000 followers Wednesday. That didn’t sit well with Zuckerberg’s sister, Randi, who tweeted at Callie Schweitzer that the picture was meant for friends only and that posting the private picture on Twitter was “way uncool.” Schweitzer replied by saying the picture popped up on her Facebook news feed. The picture shows four people standing around a kitchen staring at their phones with their mouths open while Mark Zuckerberg is in the background. Randi Zuckerberg, who used to run Facebook’s marketing department and now produces a reality television show, eventually said Schweitzer was able to see the picture because they had a mutual friend. Those tweets have since been taken down.
Schweitzer declined to comment when reached by The Associated Press. Randi Zuckerberg didn’t reply to a message via Twitter seeking comment. Randi Zuckerberg used the dustup to write about online sharing etiquette. “Digital etiquette: always ask permission before posting a friend’s photo publicly. It’s not about privacy settings, it’s about human decency,” she posted on Twitter. But Randi Zuckerberg’s comments sparked sharp reactions from people who thought the issue wasn’t about etiquette, but rather Facebook’s often changing and often confusing privacy settings. “The thing that bugged me about Randi Zuckerberg’s response is that she
used her name as a bludgeoning device. Not everyone has that. She used her position to get it taken it down,” said Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy group in San Francisco. While Facebook has made improvements in explaining the social network’s privacy settings, Galperin said they remain confusing to most people. She added that with people using Facebook as part of their everyday lives, the consequences of fumbling privacy settings can become serious. “Even Randi Zuckerberg can get it wrong. That’s an illustration of how confusing they can be,” she said. The Menlo Park, California, company recently announced it is changing its privacy settings with the aim of making it easier for users to navigate them. The fine-tuning will include several revisions that will start rolling out to Facebook’s more than 1 billion users during the next few weeks and continue into early next year.
Jay Chou raps about a corrupt eunuch
Associated Press Writer
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s pop king Jay Chou has played roles as varied as superhero, vampire and cowboy. So his latest album about an influential but corrupt court eunuch may not sound all that odd to his fans. In “Gong Gong with A Headache” released Thursday, Chou raps about the eunuch who has a secret passion for women but “must not touch them.” ‘’Gong Gong” is a name for court eunuchs in China. In the music video, Chou dances stiffly like a zombie to the tune of hip hop, dressed in satin imperial court costume. The singer also wrote the song. He says he was inspired by the popular drama series “The Legend of Zhen Huan” and other court dramas that have captivated audiences in China and Taiwan.
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Taiwan performer Jay Chou speaks during a press conference announcing his new CD “Opus 12” in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012.
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Bali tourism marginalizes Balinese people AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File
FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2011 file photo, Randi Zuckerberg, former marketing director of Facebook and founder of RtoZ Media, speaks at the Executive Marketing Summit in New York.
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Tourists playing kite surfing in Tanjung Benoa, Bali Island. Tourism sector is the locomotive of Bali’s economy. However, the growth of tourism sector accompanied with proliferation of tourism accommodation facilities, especially hotels with various types, has caused decline in the environmental carrying capacity and the image of tourism itself. Bali Post
DENPASAR - Tourism sector is the locomotive of Bali’s economy. However, the growth of tourism sector accompanied with proliferation of tourism accommodation facilities, especially hotels with various types, has caused decline in the environmental carrying capacity and the image of tourism itself. In Badung, the government plans a control and arrangement of tourist accommodation facilities claimed to suppress the land conversion rate and achieve the quality and sustainable tourism. Inevitably, this policy invites pros and cons from various circles. Some agree, but a few others consider the policy has not touched the essence of tourism issues in Badung in particular and Bali in general. It was revealed in a limited roundtable discussion entitled ‘Moratorium vs. Imperium’ held by Bali Travel News, Bali Post Media Group, on Wednesday (Dec 26) at the Inna Grand Bali Beach. The discussion was attended by the Head of Tourism and Creative Economy Resources Development Agency, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy I Gde Pitana, Badung legislator Putu Parwata, Chairman of the Indonesia Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali Ngurah Wijaya, Director of STP Nusa Dua Bali I Nyoman Madiun, as well as tourism observer and practitioner Hery Angligan and Wayan Duartha. Putu Parwata said that basically all parties
seriously built the sustainable tourism considering that tourism had supported the community’s economy. Unfortunately, each party had a different perspective, even of the opposite. Parwata judged in the era of globalization, the market could not be dammed. Supply and demand was very dependent on market condition and so was the need for tourist accommodation facility. Construction of the accommodation facilities would lead to excessive saturation, especially if without accompanied with the increase in the quality of objects and tourist attraction as happened today. “If compared to Singapore also lying on a bijou island, 2.7 million tourist visits to Bali is still far from expectation. So, aside from arranging
the accommodation, there are more important things for us namely arranging the tourist objects and attractions, including the completion of infrastructure and effective promotion,” he said. Hery Angligan suggested that government should involve a variety of elements, especially the tourism actors in making policy. The moratorium plan closing the opportunity of budget hotels, he said, had a very contradictory dualism. On the one hand, the government wanted to open up the market and boost tourist arrivals. But on the other hand, it even wanted to control and tended to close the coming of investment. Not all quality hotels had a good impact on the community. He said that five-star hotels even tended to have no direct impact on the community, unlike hotels under five-star category or small hotels. “If we try to raise the quality, the community may lose its positive impact. Establishment of small hotels actually had broader impact on the community. Indeed, the opportunity for establishment of small hotels should consider the demand and rules,” he said. Gde Pitana said the market could not be closed. Basically, the market would automatically find out its own segment. He said Bali should be grateful to backpackers (tourists with limited budget). They were the pioneers
of tourism in Bali. Closing the investment opportunity for budget hotels would eliminate the chance of backpackers to enjoy Bali. This former Chairman of the Bali Government Tourism Office tended to impose the moratorium restrictedly to certain areas on the basis of Spatial Planning. It was based on the reason that tourist arrival growth should still be pursued as more tourists would give more opportunities. On the other hand, the quality of environment had also to be taken into account. Another important thing needed carrying out this time, according to him, was that local government should make regulation setting forth the tourist accommodation that did not monopolize the existing tourist attraction. He emphasized lest the hotels provided all the needs of travelers. Tourists should be give freedom to look for their own needs, so that distribution of economic growth could be realized in Bali. Nyoman Madiun also agreed to the restricted moratorium as described by Pitana. Moratorium was fine provided that it was poised with expansion to untouched areas. He said that tourists coming to Bali should be given opportunities to grow naturally because Bali did not only belong to qualified travelers. Government, he said, was too scared and focused on the demand. (kmb25)