Just came across Keen’s manifesto against Web 2.0.  There’s something to be said for this counter argument.  Instead of delving into a critique of them, I’m just going to let them speak for themselves.
THE ANTI WEB 2.0 MANIFESTO (Adorno-for-idiots) by Andrew Keen
1. The cult of the amateur is digital utopianism’s most seductive delusion. This cult […]

Categories: web 2.0

Don’t executives at major media companies pay attention?  This parody of the Colbert Report, called Stop the Falsiness is as much an ad for the show as it is its own thing.  There is nothing here that would at all threaten Viacom’s product or in any way go against the political sensibility of the show.  […]

Categories: copyright

So, you thought that Google’s acquisition of YouTube was a momentous business deal.  Well, YouTube’s price tag was only half what they’re paying for Double Click - a top provider of marketing technology and services.  Double Click’s technology is what Google needs to "perfect" their adsense technology.  The high price tag was an effort to […]

Categories: privacy

Film is based on an illusion of mobility.  ‘Persistence of Vision’ is the way a number of still frames, when moving very quickly through a machine and separated by a black bar, creates the impression of movement.  Cinematic movement is an illusion that is so successful that we hardly question its authenticity.

 
It’s for this […]

Categories: network · mediated urbanism · mobility · web 2.0 · place

In most instances of online navigation, we retain a reasonable expectation of privacy.  Yet it is clear that every move, every written thought, conversation, or search string, is transformed into data and stored somewhere.  In essence, every thing we do is transformed into data detritus.  We leave data traces behind.  Traces that we expect will […]

Categories: web 2.0

I’ve been thinking about how the average web user formulates their conception of privacy.  A lot of people have very personal conversations in "public" online spaces, such as chat rooms and in sites like Myspace, et. al.  Do they have expectations of privacy within these spaces?  If they do, what exactly are those expectations? 
First, […]

Categories: web 2.0