Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Danyl Strype <strypey AT disintermedia.net.nz>]

Kia ora koutou

On 20 December 2012 19:22, Leigh Blackall <leighblackall AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, 9 hours ago the CCNZ Facebook page posted news that recommendations
> were made to NZ Parliament to consider CC licensing in education. I'm sorry
> to see thar same information ha not been sent to the email list. I hope CCNZ
> can work out how to post news across the channels, and not lose reach in any
> one.

A week may be a long time in politics, but I think we can cope with a
9 hour delay ;)

What worries me more is FB's move's towards erecting tollgates between
the people running community pages, and the people following them.
>From what I'm hearing you now need to pay every time you post, to make
sure your post reaches all the people who have 'liked' or otherwise
subscribed to receive it.

Media critic and documatary-maker Sergio Toporek expresses this much
more diplomatically than I would, in this open letter to Zuckerberg:
http://www.bewareofimages.com/blog/2012/11/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg/

"Truthfully speaking, after investing much time, money and effort
building a community which I’m now being limited to reach, I find
Facebook’s current practices disconcerting. Not only because you’re
preventing me from reaching members I’ve already paid to connect with,
but because you’ve basically broken your own functioning system in
order to sell us the solution."

and...

"As an advertising tool, Facebook will still connect millions around
the world, but only as a consequence of a different goal and guiding
principle. A goal to monetize its user-base by managing, controlling
and limiting the way people share and connect. The exact opposite of
its stated mission. Please, do not let this happen."

The only way to break this mopoly power is federated social
networking, and while I still support strategic engagement with FB
(where it benefits *us* more than it benefits *FB*) I'd like to see CC
leading (or at least supporting) the charge towards the federated
social web:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/03/introduction-distributed-social-network

He wero tēnei
Strypey

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Danyl Strype
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