Trust is the new black... The great opportunity for news orgs is to constructively demonstrate trustworthy reporting & to visibly do so. The new model for news curation & selection, I feel, will be a balance of prof. editing & collaborative news filtering. In one incarnation, news orgs will look at feeds from highly respected news fans & that will drive stories that are featured more prominently.
Media critic Ken Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine created in a garage in 1998 to the provider of all things Internet in his new book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. He asks: "Do you trust Google? Do you want to store that information with a company? Will they guard your secrets, or will they share them with advertisers or with someone else?"
(CNN) -- Status updates, photo tagging and FarmVille aren't just for adults or even teenagers anymore.
Researchers say a growing number of children are flouting age requirements on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, or using social-networking sites designed just for them.
Facebook and MySpace require users to be at least 13. But they have no practical way to verify ages, and many young users pr
At one time (and I’m old enough to remember this), it seemed as if everyone feared the Internet’s scope and potency. It held powerful secrets, from Social Security numbers to conspiracy theories. And it’s still a reckless place, largely governed by schadenfreude (TMZ) or voyeurism (Fmylife). Meanwhile, Facebook is a non-anonymous (hence tightly controlled) fantasy land. While the Internet unmasks,
Facebook can gloss over, trading honesty for fake intimacy -- exhibitionism flirting with normal social restraint.
At a time when voters in many states are using petitions to qualify ballot measures on issues from gay rights to property rights, a legal dispute over the identity of 138,000 petition signers here is raising new questions about privacy, free speech and elections in the Internet age.
Two Chinese writers’ groups claim that Google has scanned Chinese works into an electronic database in violation of international copyright standards. The organizations are urging China’s authors to step forward & defend their rights. Google’s ambitions to digitize millions of books, in most cases without first seeking permission from publishers or authors, has been contentious in the US...
A friend watched me play recently and asked, “Can you buy these mixes off iTunes?” You cannot, but I can foresee people playing the mixes from DJ Hero into digital recorders and then listening to them and playing them for friends without the game itself.
I’m not sure if that would be legal. But I am sure that there is almost no chance your local weekend spinner can create anything nearly as tight and funky as the mixes in DJ Hero.
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Trust is the new black... The great opportunity for news orgs is to constructively demonstrate trustworthy reporting & to visibly do so. The new model for news curation & selection, I feel, will be a balance of prof. editing & collaborative news filtering. In one incarnation, news orgs will look at feeds from highly respected news fans & that will drive stories that are featured more prominently.
(CNN) -- Status updates, photo tagging and FarmVille aren't just for adults or even teenagers anymore. Researchers say a growing number of children are flouting age requirements on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, or using social-networking sites designed just for them. Facebook and MySpace require users to be at least 13. But they have no practical way to verify ages, and many young users pr
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