By Sang Hee Park

John Halcyon Styn will lead a SXSW panel: Casting Crib Cutesploitation – Using Your Kids as Content. He owns Royal Pink Productions, a consulting company that specializes in online video ad social media. Royal Pink Productions helps craft digital landscapes of people’s websites with integrity and authenticity. In other words, they work with large corporate organizations which work with the individual consumers that have become critical in the modern digital world. So, they help large corporations use the tools, like Youtube and Facebook, effectively. Royal Pink Productions has experimental projects such as HugNation.com that work to use the web to foster connections.

Watch this interview with Styn on CNN:

Styn also hosts the blog Life Student.

Styn frequently speaks about blogging, webcam, chat and community building, and consults with large companies to help them understand the delicacies required when courting the information generation. He has been going to SXSW for about 10 years. He has received a web award and been on a number of panels.

Watch his interview about SXSW:

According to Styn, many people, who were innovators and users of the early web, have become parents. He said he is interested to know what the risks and rewards are of having children while broadcasting online. So he decided to speak about “Casting Crib Cutesploitation – Using Your Kids as Content.” He wonders whether or not people are on the edge of a huge crisis of privacy. He used the example of “David after the dentist”, saying videos are simply fun, but have can influence a person’s future or violate privacy.