rapid dissent: 2006 Year in Review

2006 was a year of momentous change for me and this site. Thanks to everyone for your continued support and readership throughout all of my ups and downs this past year. I'll spare you the obligatory "I'll post more in the new year," crap. I'll do my best, and I hope you'll come around to check out the site from time to time.

This year I spent a lot of time studying data mining and personal privacy, specifically as they apply to security, national and otherwise. In doing so I've wrestled with the concepts of identity, privacy, and secrecy. My investigation so far has been as much technical as philosophical, and I feel as if I've only barely scratched the surface.

I'm still working through some of my conclusions, but for now here's some raw data to chew on.

rapid dissent readership June-December 2006 (click image for larger view):