[Chester LUG] Microblogging

[Stuart Burns]

I did try but unfortunately if u dont accept, you cant have an
account. Not that i have much i wouldnt want to me, just the principle
really.

On 2/7/09, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a good point Dan, I think most people don't realise that Facebook own
> all the photos they've posted of themselves drunk at various pubs!
>
> It's a good discussion though, many people don't even think about what
> they're clicking when they agree to licenses.  Would be interesting to see
> if you are able to sign up without agreeing to that Stuart.
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Dan Lynch <biglynchy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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