[Digital-Mentor] CN Group boosts hyperlocal websites

[MJ Ray]

"Mike Amos-Simpson" <yomocic at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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)?

Yes, that's exactly it.  I feel digital mentors would do better to add
sites to distributed, sharing-allowed sites like ODP http://dmoz.org/
and http://geourl.org/ and encourage other websites to use them too.
Most Social Networks are a sort of digital Hotel California: you can
check your data out any time you want, but it can never leave... and
they ban you if you try to download all your data on the way out:-
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/01/03/facebook-blocks-scoble-for-downloading-his-contacts/

Hope that explains,
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