IN THIS PODCAST: Larry Magid, CBS News Tech Correspondent, joins IT2.
Should social media platforms be paying it’s users for content? It’s a thought… Larry discusses.
From the NY Times piece,
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Your Data Is Crucial to a Robotic Age. Shouldn’t You Be Paid for It?”
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Should Facebook pay us for our puppy pictures?
Of course, the idea sounds crazy. Posting puppies on Facebook is not a chore. We love it: Facebook’s 1.4 billion
daily users
spend the better part of an hour on it every day. It’s amazing that we don’t have to pay for it.And yet the idea is gaining momentum in Silicon Valley and beyond: Facebook and the other technological Goliaths offering free online services — from which they harvest data from and about their users — should pay for every nugget of information they reap.
(Jack Sunday & Amy Iler are talk-show hosts at 790 AM KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. “It Takes 2 with Jack & Amy” can be heard weekdays 11am-2pm. Follow Amy on Twitter @AmyKFGO. Follow Jack on Twitter @nodakjack.)
