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(Cross posted on my fellowship blog)

TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb have written about a slide shared by Yahoo!’s Principal Research Scientist Elizabeth Churchill on geographical locations where Flickr users are more likely to post their photos with privacy settings (red) or use the default public setting (green). The sample set was 1 million Flickr users who self-reported their locations, in 2005.

Neither Michael Arrington nor Marshall Kirkpatrick share any details of the methodology behind the map, but a quick Google search led me to the presentation from which this slide seems to be taken: ‘Sharing Preferences and Privacy Cultures‘. The presentation itself is based on a paper by Elizabeth Churchill and Shyong K. Lam titled ‘The Social Web: Global Village or Private Cliques?’ The paper is behind a firewall but the presentation gives some more data about the research —

- More than 90% of users younger than 25 post their photos as public. In the 25 to 40 age group, public photo sharing behavior drops, almost in s straight line, to 80% and goes as low as 70% for users in their late 50s and early 60s.

Quick Summary: Check out my first podcast on Indicast where Aditya Mhatre, Aditya Mishra, VeerChand Bothra and I discuss why startups need workaholics and why mobile will drive web 2.0 usage in India.

My First Podcast on Indicast

I had a great time last Sunday recording my first podcast with Aditya Mhatre, Aditya Mishra, VeerChand Bothra (tweet) on why startups need workaholics and why mobile will drive web 2.0 usage in India (tweet).

All three of them have extremely rich backgrounds, resulting in an extremely vibrant discussion —

- Aditya Mhatre is India’s leading podcaster at Indicast (Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter).

- VeerChand Bothra is at the center of India’s mobile boom, as MobilePundit, as organizer of Mumbai Mobile Mondays and as VP at NetCore Solutions (Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter).

- Aditya Mishra is deeply involved in the startup ecosystem in India through his work (he has the fancy title of Entrepreneur-in-Residence at TCS) and his role as the organizer of BarCamp and Kickstart (Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter).

AOL has launched a new-look India portal and Michael Arrington thinks that it looks like a Yahoo clone.

It doesn’t look all that Yahoo-like to me, but probably Michael has a better eye for such things. What do you think?

Update: Oops! Michael was referring to the new design AOL is beta testing, and it does look a lot like Yahoo.

What do you do when a journalist asks you for an interview?

Well, if you are an A-list blogger, you insist that you’ll do the interview only by e-mail (Jason Calacanis) or offer to blog about the topic and let the journalist quote from the post (Dave Winer).

Now, I’m not a A-lister yet, so I just do half a dozen little jumps around the room every time a journalist asks me for an interview. When I do become an A-lister…

Also See: Jason Calacanis (rejoinder), Dave Winer, Michael Arrington, Fred Vogelstein (rejoinder), Techmeme, Jeff Jarvis, Wired, Dan Gillmor, Valleywag, Heather Green.