Internet, meet hierarchy. As Felix Salmon points out in a timely article from earlier this week, “How capitalism breaks the web,” the dream of an internet teaming with non-professional blogs, open content, and online identity is now lost to a small consortium of “web-hostile” hubs such as Facebook and Instagram. The cause? As Salmon describes, many web contributors would rather go with user-friendly interfaces than explore all that the web has to offer. Continue reading »
Posted by Craig Dietrich at 1:08 am
Tagged with: capitalism, culture, internet, networks
Oct 072010
When today’s kids enter the job market in 20-something years, would-be employers checking up them may have no trouble finding … their ultrasound photos. That’s because they’re leaving a digital trail a mile long, thanks to Mom and Dad. A new study has found that 23% of children had their pre-birth scans posted online. And once those babies leave the womb, things get crazier: 33% have photos uploaded to the Internet from birth; 7% of babies have their very own email address.
Internet security firm AVG, which polled Internet-enabled moms in 10 countries, reports that by age two, 81% of toddlers have some kind of digital footprint.
Posted by Corey Butler at 2:05 pm
Tagged with: babies, fetusbook, networks, social