Appealing to kids is big business. This NPR story covers the various technologies meant to appeal to children - but more importantly, meant to give parents new ways of keeping track of them. Most interestingly, it introduces the concept of GPS enabled phones designed to appeal to kids under 12. They think […]

Categories: placeofmedia · privcy · surveillance · phones

I recently posted this series of prompts to the iDC discussion list.
Following Google’s acquisition of Feedburner, I want to consider how the threats to privacy that became apparent in that context extend to physical communities (neighborhood, organization, city) that are enabled/bolstered/fortified by social web media.  Many community groups and neighborhood organizations are using digital networking […]

Categories: placeofmedia · citygovernment · city · privcy · populism · iDC