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Thank you dear, I've updated my blog post on Twitter and Racism. <3 Laurel/SilkCharm P.S. I just spent a week in Saudi Arabia teaching Arabic women about social media. We should compare notes o.O

I'm in interested Robert: are you following @podblanc the white supremacist and rascist? He is following you - and with his tweets re: Adolf Hitler, I'd like to know your response to responsibility of social media to align our social values along with our "we media" distribution channels. (my link goes to the Twitter podblanc racism blog post). Is auto-follow such a good idea in this case? If you are not following him, could you also let us know? - I noticed that other (social) media entities are...

@Donald Just because it's in the ToS, EULA, or whatever, doesn't make it right. The TOS needs to change then. The old EULA for MySpace and YouTube said that the copyright of uploaded material belonged to THEM. They changed it recently. Time for another change.

Hi Robert,
About a year ago, I gave a presentation at WebJam here in Sydney, Australia about the need for an unIndustry organisation. Our industry organisations protect professionally developed content e.g. Interactive media companies, but there is no one protecting user generated content (or consumer generated media, or whatever the "in" phrase is now). Over the years I've had a few nasty experiences of waking up one morning and my community is gone - 404 errors, site taken down, admin got bored.

I exhorted to a drunken crowd that if there is another economic/technology Bubble burst, this time it won't be the Venture Capitalists that are hurt but US - if Flickr or YouTube gets turned off with no warning, that's our memories, and lives. We need the CoC to be an agreement to give us warnings, and ability to back our content up within a reasonable timeframe. I was dressed as my Avatar - SilkCharm - at the time, in a pink wig and huge pink wings, so no-one paid me any attention. :P

If you, Robert, do absolutely nothing else over the next year to 18 months but set up an unIndustry governance organisation with a code of conduct that has companies committing to protecting user's content/profiles/friends you will have done enormous good for all of us who create content on hosted sites. But if I may give you a tip: while evangelising, don't dress as a pink pixie, with wings. :)

Thanks Nick Hodge for pointing this post out to me *huggles*

Wow, you really are coming to the end of an era. Changes all around...

*780,000 joined 'stop newsfeed' groups last year, not 100k.

You confuse the Echo Chamber with the real concerns of members who couldn't care less - less than 100k of 45 million registered concerns about Beacon by joining protest groups. Unlike the 100,000 (who joined groups in 48 hours) who complained about Newsfeed a year ago when FB was only 3 and half million.

It doesn't take any where near as much courage to express half thought out opinions on a one-to-many mechanism such as a blog than it takes to run an online community. I'm just glad that in most cases Zuckerberg has the courage to ignore sensationalist trolling. Unfortunately, in this case he hasn't, as he has just blogged about Beacon. At least he did it on his own blog and not pandering to others...

@address book discussion - yes the API is there to pull your profile. I guess no one has done it because Facebook devs don't want you to leave Facebook?

I love the way people take a free personal service and say it doesn't scale to business/enterprise proportions. It's no more Facebook's fault for not monetising their community 'properly' than it is Scoble's fault for not monetising his database. And seriously, anyone who wants enterprise services (5000 plus) should pay enterprise rates for enterprise scaleability. ie. you get what you pay for, the new economy notwithstanding.

Proper, intelligent, skilled journalism sells itself, whether its print, radio, on the Internet or on television. Give me three good, dedicated reporters and a modem and I can run any corporate-run profit-driven media outlet out of business in a year.
Give me three good BLOGGERS ...
I simply can't tell the difference anymore. Sorry. Most reporters interview committed, articulate, passionate, skilled, professionals ... who now blog.

This discussion eerily reflects the challenges facing the print and tv media today. Often a large media and entertainment company is split in two. And I mean split, in every way. Physically in geographically seperate buildings, floors and offices. Funding, fighting against each other for every dollar.

The 'offline' department treats 'new media' with disdain. Refusal to offer up content in a timely fashion, hiding behind closed, legacy systems and 'where's the money?' arguments. New Media in turn are frustratingly vague and arrogant, threatening (but rarely delivering) to implement new untried strategies with gay abandon. OR people with traditional media bodies who respond to new media in an old media way.

None of this is the fault of the Dialogue is Content posse. But if the creative consumer hadn't of come along, these two overweight, bloated competitive brats (print vs online) would've still survived, even though cannibalising their own audience.

Incidentally, does anyone have the stats for growth of radio (post TV)? That could be an interesting area to research... (Ack, don't you have Wordpress PREVIEW enabled, Robert dear?)