Archive for 'Media'

Jan201130

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When does free stop feeling like free online?

My Web Ecology colleague Sara is moderating a panel at SXSW this year on how free services online are not free because you are paying for the service by willingly offering your data to them. The businesses benefit through improving their services by 1) learning your user behavior to improve the service and 2) adding [...]

Jul201019

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Anyone find it odd that Fox News personalities compare themselves to Network’s Howard Beale?

I know I’m jumping on this rant pretty late in the game but I just watched the 1976 film Network for the first time last night. If you haven’t seen the film, Howard Beale, the anchor of the nightly news program of a fictional fourth news network UBS, goes literally mad and takes the rest [...]