The Security Kitchen

So, I was asked to partake in a research project because they want to find out what impact your consumption of fruit has on how you feel. I haven’t been a healthy boy lately and since it concerns one of my favorite subjects ( FOOD ! OM NOM NOM!) I agreed. The good thing (or maybe not) is that they use ‘new media’ to follow up on their guinea pigs. We get a big fruit basket every week, for three weeks and everything is evaluated through chat sessions, we have to keep a (private, oh wait, not so much) blog and visit (and discuss) on a forum. Free fruit and even more internet time, I ain’t complaining.

The blogs however are where the problem is … They are private, you know, we have a login and a password. and that doesn’t allow us to visit other peoples blogs. I didn’t really try hard, in the top right corner there were the well known rss icons that led me to my private feed , something like http://researchsite/subject44/subject44.xml.

I’m sure you already guessed that pointing my brower to http://researchsite/subject43/subject43.xml allowed me to watch my fellow guinea pigs intimate musings on their fruit consumption, but also where they have been, where they work, who’s in their family …. I’m pretty sure anybody can pick up those RSS feeds and have a blast with that information.

Allow me to go back to my RSS reader and feed the voyeurist in me.

Have a nice and secure week !
W