Reply to Khürt on micro.blog by Nitin Khanna (nitinkhanna.com) Khürt, I absolutely get a lot of value from my micro.blog account. First of, this is a great community of bloggers, coders, amateur photographers and even one harpist. I’ve found this to be a great continuation of the community I found in app.net, which subsequently splintered into a few groups. I remember paying for an app.net account. App.net was also touted as saving people from Twitter. Whatever happened to app.net? Could…
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An old post (discovered via Zsolt Benke website feed) by Hossein Derakhshan who spent 6 years in prison (2008-2014) over blogging in Iran. He returns a world overrun by social media. Being watched is something we all eventually have to get used to and live with and, sadly, it has nothing to do with the country of our residence. Ironically enough, states that cooperate with Facebook and Twitter know much more about their citizens than those, like Iran, where the…
Social Networks And Data Ownership by Mayo Jordanov (Mayo Jordanov) Asking about data ownership is the right direction, but the question shouldn’t by why the users don’t get money in return, but rather why can’t they view or control all of their data. .... We should not be demanding to get paid, just because Facebook makes money off our data, but instead, we should be demanding full visibility into our data. What they have, when it was collected, and who…
