I understood this problem to be solved already.  We have the notion of sharing, and more specifically of scoping (with groups).  If I write a story by myself, then it's private unless I explicitly say otherwise. If I draw a painting in an activity shared with the mesh, then I've already agreed that everyone should be able to see it.  If I work on project with my study group, than likely that will have a "my study group" scope, and thus be available for anyone in my group to look at. <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>We already have the notion of sharing and group scoping for privacy, so why wouldn't that determine the default scope of who can view what?  This is a reasonable default that doesn't reduce privacy but is not strictly non-public. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>- Eben</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ivan Krstić</b> <<a href="mailto:krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu"> krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Aug 24, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:<br>> Having user documents that are innately private runs counter to the <br>> principles of an environment designed for sharing.  This is a familiar<br>> model of ownership and privacy, but not necessarily an appropriate one<br>> in this case.<br><br>You'll have a shot at convincing me after you've convinced Walter. <br>Personally, I really don't want kids to learn about privacy by virtue<br>of having their diary splattered all over the mesh and web because<br>things are public by default. I would refuse to use such a computer,<br> so I am loathe to give it to others. I am, however, entirely fine<br>with a setting somewhere that lets interested kids _change_ the<br>default to shared/public for documents.<br><br>--<br>Ivan Krstić <<a href="mailto:krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard"> krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard</a>.edu> | <a href="http://radian.org">http://radian.org</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Sugar mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Sugar@lists.laptop.org">Sugar@lists.laptop.org </a><br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org">http://lists.laptop.org</a>/listinfo/sugar<br></blockquote></div><br></div>