From "Naked Generation" to "Mechanical Turk"

I ran across two interesting articles today.  These are not industry news but reflections and reviews, so depending on your level of interest you may or may not find them relevant to what you usually see here.

Welcome to Naked Generation is an interesting article looking at the implications of being too much in the open in the online world, and a very valid question of "guys, were are we heading?"  There is a very wide spectrum of people with online lives, and social networks in general are creating more and more of a "it's ok to be in the open" attitude.  Personally I don't like it - just an opinion - and I relate very much to what Caroline McCarthy says in the article.

The other article is Elinor Mills' experiment with Amazon Mechanical Turk.  The concept of AMT intrigued me from the early days Amazon announced it, and I still think it's a noble idea.  But aside from volunteer collaboration, I have never been able to find justification in people contributing to it (read financial benefits).  So it was interesting to see somebody actually spending some time to see if it makes sense or not.  I guess I still think the same - it does not.