Broadcast a birth?

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"Why not?" just doesn't seem to be a good enough reason when considering the possibility of posting certain life-cycle events to the internet - live. When, quite a few years back, what was to be the first broadcast of a delivery of a baby via a web camera to a website was reported, it seemed to me that the more logical question would have been "would you invite 100 people into your delivery room?". I wouldn't. Even though Hila's birth, including a photograph of her, was posted to my web site well before she'd even gotten a name, that was a public announcement. It's not that the birth itself was private - that's not really the proper word. Instead, it was personal, but of course digital media have contributed greatly to the blurring of the barriers between the personal and the public.

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Go to: Would you post photographs of a funeral to a web site?, or
Go to: Spreading the word, or
Go to: If you knew him like we knew him.