Publicacy

The word "publicacy" was coined by Scott Cleland, author of the insightful web policy The Precursor Blog, as a needed antonym to "privacy". In the age of Web 2.0 social networks, mobile phone GPS, cload computing, and a growing variety of "wisdom of crowds" data analysis, the "publicacy ethos" - that "if technology innovation can make information public, it should be public and that there should be no permission or payment required to access, use or remix this new 'public' information" - becomes an increasingly important subject for discussion and debate. As this NY Times article explains, you're leaving a digital trail and tracking that trail is valuable learning - both commercially and societally.