Imagine your puppy escapes from the house. Kind of frightening once you realize it’s disappeared. It has no clue where it is and has almost no defenses with which to take care of itself. Now imagine that instead of your puppy it’s your elderly Mom who has Alzheimer’s. Obviously you’re not going to go around the neighborhood and put up posters. So what do you do? Continue reading
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Dancing In The Dark
If you spend any time reading about what’s going on in digital media, you’re probably aware of Rupert Murdoch‘s war on free content. His beef is that many companies spend lots of resources to produce original content and then others such as Google, Drudge, and HuffPo aggregate it and make money off of it with minimal investment. He wants to place a lot of content behind pay walls which, in my opinion, will be an interesting experiment but one which is doomed to failure unless there is a systematic change in the nature of the web. But that’s not the subject of today’s piece. Instead, Rupert’s now gone one step beyond. Continue reading
Filed under digital media, What's Going On
Hiding in Plain Sight
My nieces changed their profile names on Facebook. As I understand it, this isn’t some new form of teenage rebellion – dissociating themselves from their parents by changing their names – but a tactic that many kids are employing to make it harder for them to be found by admissions officers, potential employers, and others whom they might not want looking at their profiles. Given that we live in an age of “open, discoverable, and transparent,” this is kind of counter-intuitive. Or maybe not. Continue reading
Filed under digital media, Huh?, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
Consult Keith 