[Digital-Mentor] CN Group boosts hyperlocal websites

[Mike Amos-Simpson]

This maybe leads slightly to whether theres a need for an 'ethical debate' -
should mentors simply provide awareness of whats out there & let people
choose themselves (well actually definitely yes!), but in terms of sites the
mentors use themselves in their services with people maybe there is a debate
to be had about whether certain kinds of sites should be avoided and if so
for what reasons.


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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:35 PM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> "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,
> --
> MJ Ray (slef)
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