[Digital-Mentor] CN Group boosts hyperlocal websites

[Mike Amos-Simpson]

I'm assuming the relevance of this is that within the digital mentor role
there needs to be some consideration to helping people understand what
happens to their data/information and how it may/can be used (and this would
include social networks etc. too)?



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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:39 PM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> "David Wilcox" <david at socialreporter.com> wrote:
> > Is the issue how to retain control of your personal, community content
> > while getting benefit/traffic from national/regional infrastructures?
> >
> > Some discussion of that in relation to the Localmouth system
> > http://socialreporter.com/?p=383
>
> I think that's a key issue.  The BBC has been criticised in the past
> for failing to link out enough, but I've not seen much change yet.
> Even wikipedia insults community sites as not reputable enough to cite,
> while the tiniest tinpot tabloid is reputable (and a few spoof sites
> have been cited, too).
>
> I don't understand how that socialreporter.com discussion relates to
> this.  Localmouth seems like another "all your community are belong to
> us" effort, which clearly tells me "do not use our website" unless I
> agree to them claiming "intellectual property rights" over anything I
> put in.  Seems a bit over-zealous.
>
> There was link to groupsnearyou.com (which points people to Big Media
> again, but does at least offer a simple "add" link) but I can't add
> our local community's web forum to it.  Clicking "Area covered >>"
> just displays the same form again, but cleared of my data. I guess it
> has hidden browser requirements, like so many anti-social social
> sites.
>
> I feel we'd do better to add sites to distributed systems like ODP
> http://dmoz.org/ and http://geourl.org/ and encourage other websites
> (including the media companies) to use them.
>
> Regards,
> --
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