[Chester LUG] Microblogging

[Dan Lynch]

Yes that's a good point, I license almost everything I do under Creative
Commons because I believe strongly in it but I can see why it would make
others feel uncomfortable and it's a completely personal decision. I always
thought you could sign up and just leave that box unticked, does it not let
you sign up without a CC license? I've never tried you see. I assumed that
was optional :S

The CC-SA license is quite liberal, I usually use CC-BY-SA and sometimes the
non commercial clause too. If we're just posting little updates about
meetings in Chester and so on thought I don't see how anyone else could
really make use of them in a damaging way. We want to spread that
information. Most services state in their terms and conditions that anything
you post is owned equally then by the operator of the website, like
Facebook. If you post any photos on Facebook they then own them, there was a
big controversy about that last year. I find that far more worrying than CC.

As I said though I totally respect that some people won't feel comfortable
posting under CC, that's why I thought it was optional. If it isn't optional
then I can understand why you might not want to sign up :)

Dan


On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Stuart Burns
<stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Everyone.
>
> Here is a problem. If you go with identi.ca you are obliged to sign up
> under the Creative Commons licence, so all your comments etc are free for
> others to use. I think that personally sounds dangerous. Do you really want
> people to be able to use all your comments for all manner of purposes ?
>
> http://identi.ca/main/register
>
>
>
> 2009/2/6 David Holden <dh at iucr.org>
>
>> On Friday 06 February 2009, Dan Lynch wrote:
>> > I agree that it serves the same purpose as a mailing list and I've said
>> a
>> > few times that I can't understand what people find so hard or offputting
>> > about mailing lists. There's no doubt though since posting on places
>> like
>> > Twitter the response and interest generated for LivLug has been much
>> > greater. There's still a very active mailing list but for less confident
>> > users or people newer to technology they seem to find it easier to
>> follow
>> > things through a website. It's casting the net wider that's all
>> >
>>
>> Fair do's, the more newbies the merier.
>>
>>  Dave.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. David Holden.
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