I was reading this on the way into work today (iPhone, Google Reader, coffee in one hand, one eye scanning for trams across swanston st) and while I think this is a fantastic take on the state our digital shadow is in, I couldn’t get past the word ‘product’ and the commercial connotations it had.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that commerce and human rights are mutually exclusive.. what I’m thinking here is that commerce might be too small a field for this very cool document to situate itself.

.. and while I know that ‘product’ is used in this context to describe the product of design endeavor, I do wonder if there’s not a better way of describing these things we make… particularly given the product/service dialectic, and the co-option of words by sectors (like commerce ‘owning’ product) that we really don’t have control over..

anyone got any thoughts on that?