Category: Crowdsourcing Content

  • What are YOUR terms of service? The value of personal data

    The New York Times nails it today: “personal data is the oil of the digital age.”  It has a price, and it serves as currency.  Except that we’re all expected to give it away in return for services like Facebook or Gmail, which we believe is a fair trade.  Or we don’t think about it…

  • I’ve wrestled with this — a lot.  Originally, I had tied it to my films, and called it “Independent America: Why Storytelling Matters More Than Ever in the Networked Age.”  But as I began to publicly explain how the digital revolution has rendered once scarce, information now more abundant than ever, with credibility was in…