There’s some new memes floating about that are related to our thinking about culture and technology. This is one of them.
on social network sharecropping
I think it’s important to own your own land. It’s important to publish content in a way that you, and only you, can control. I think it’s important to be able to decide what you publish, how you publish, and what can be done with that. Even if you’re not publishing content in the traditional sense, the data generated by your activities has meaning. Google mines your subscriptions in Google Reader, as well as your searches. Flickr tracks whose photos you fave, and where you comment.
D’arcy Norman is another of those great Canadian thinkers who is really helping to drive thinking about technology, education, and culture. There’s a whole raft of them north of the border and I keep thinking it must be something in the water up there.
Go check this one out and see what you think.
April 15th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I think I am understanding what this blog is talking about. It is saying that we are adding to a community of information, but the providers are the only ones prospering from them. They have the adds on our blogs that they are profiting from our “crops” so to speak. The only way to stop it is to pay for the site and who wants to do that. I think I can live with adds so that it is free for the public. I don’t know, however, to make money myself from the adds. I have heard that you can create a webpage and put adds on them yourself. Then when people click on the add you will get paid. I don’t know much about how the Internet works anyways, but I am trying to post a webpage now and will learn how to shortly. Let me know if I missed the boat all together.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am
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April 25th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I agree with how he feels. I would rather not have my crop monitor by others to see what I am doing or how I am doing it.