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The web2.0 suicide machine
Posted on December 19, 2009 by Mdia
Everyone should have the right to disconnect. Seamless connectivity and rich social experience offered by web2.0 companies are the very antithesis of human freedom. Users are entrapped in a high resolution panoptic prison without walls, accessible from anywhere in the world. Everyone should have the right to quit her 2.0-ified life. Facebook and Co. are [...]
Nicholas Carr on The Price of Free (in NY Times)
Posted on December 18, 2009 by Mdia
and has 1 comment.
The Price of Free
By NICHOLAS CARR
Published in the NYT on November 13, 2009
When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and plumbing — are nothing new in the entertainment business, but [...]
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