Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Still a Real Issue

While I think one can exaggerate the extent to which new technologies make it harder to outrun our youthful mistakes, it's still a real issue. For example, I don't think the mainstream media have given much thought to "semi-public" spaces like Myspace pages which, while technically public, aren't generally meant to be seen by hundreds of thousands of people. They're public within the virtual space they inhabit.