1.0 link 81637 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anastasia-goodstein/myspaces-missed-opportuni_b_81637.html I've been noodling over yesterday's MySpace announcement since, well, yesterday. While I applaud any effort to make the site safer for teens, there is an aspect of all this that feels forced. Whenever industry reacts to the threat of legislation or regulation, vs. being proactive early on, the measures taken feel like they are meant to appease whoever was doing the threatening. Rebecca Scritchfield, a grad student at John Hopkins, made this point in an email to me...

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