Showing posts with label smiley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smiley. Show all posts

10 July 2006

The Smiley's Sad Tale

The smiley is a defining icon of the online generation. But as this article points out, it is also likely to go down as yet another enclosure of the virtual commons, a victim of insensate corporate greed, as companies battle it out for the "right" to claim this symbol as their "own".