DISQUS

Loic, Nice job with 0.2. It does keep getting better. I wish, though, you could bring back the Identi.ca support that you had in Twhirl. Now I'm no longer interacting with the Identi.ca community hardly at all since I switched from Twhirl.

In any event, thanks for the updated Seesmic Desktop. I look forward to seeing what you all do next.

Oops... obviously meant to say when we "sign" up for services and in the paragraph above that I meant to use "realizing" versus "realize".

Chris,

Thanks for putting up this piece. You're right, the Facebook ToS has been with us all along. I wrote about this (ironically started by some comments from you) back in July 2007 at:

http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2007/07/...

The key difference now with the change in the Facebook ToS is that the perpetual license you grant Facebook outlives your relationship with Facebook. If you remove your content from Facebook, it doesn't matter... Facebook still has a license to do whatever it wants with that content.

I'll admit that I guess I sort of thought of it that way all along, and so I've made a practice of not adding into Facebook anything that I don't want Facebook to have in perpetuity. But I have done so consciously aware of the FB Terms of Service. I think part of the uproar in the blogosphere is that many people are only now reading the actual ToS and realize that all their content now belongs to Facebook.

As other commenters have noted, it's easy to dismiss these ToS docs when we shine up for whatever the latest bright shiny social service is, but it's really critical to actually read them and understand what rights are being given away.

If you choose (as I do) to still upload content into Facebook, do understand what rights you are giving away.

P.S. In his comment above, Andrew Baron does make an excellent point related to the potential future monetization of your content and how Facebook, with its copies, could potentially impact your own business goals. Definitely worth considering.

Matthew,

Nicely done edit. Thanks for making this available!

Dan

Ahoy there, Captain Chris! Congrats on taking the leap of faith and plunging out into the unknown! Best wishes to you and I'll look forward to continuing to read of your journeys here.

I think it's an interesting idea and if you made such a public AMI, I'd probably try it out. I'm honestly not sure how often I'd use it, but there actually have been times in the past when I've wished I could just launch an XMPP server for some reason (usually when I had a problem getting to one of my regular ones).

Chris, Interesting to see the end result... nice answers to the questions. Thanks for pointing to it. Dan

Dave, Thanks for posting and tweeting this. I've had the exact same problem and also been annoyed (but not enough to go looking for a fix). Thanks, Dan

Great to see!

Great summary and list of links. Thanks for taking the time to compile the list.

Dan
http://identi.ca/danyork

Edd,

Excellent post. In a moment of synchronicity I wrote something along the same lines last night: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2008/07/...

And yes, I'm following you on identi.ca.

Great point about the openness of data. I hadn't covered that in my post.

Dan

It depends.

Chris,

Happy Birthday again! Reading your post is a bit scary as I could pretty much take your "Strengths and Weaknesses" paragraph and apply it verbatim to myself. :-)

Best wishes as you start your new year!

See you around,
Dan

Chris,

Just found your great list through a tweet. I use many of the tools you list and will have to check out some of the others. The two not on your list that I use pretty much every day are:

- MarsEdit ($) http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/ for blogging. I tried both MarsEdit and ecto and found that I really liked MarsEdit better, especially with it's easy handling/insertion of images/media through a "library" feature. Some people may like the WYSIWIG editor of ecto better, but if you're okay with seeing HTML code in your post, I find that MarsEdit totally rocks.

- Skitch (free) http://www.skitch.com/ for screen captures that I want to put into blog entries. Allows me to easily capture a part of the screen, resize/crop/edit it, annotate it with text or drawings and then drag/drop the resulting image to MarsEdit for upload to my blog. Also allows me to upload images to myskitch.com so I can easily share them with people via passing around a URL.

I also like Jing ( http://www.jingproject.com/ ) for the similar purpose. If you want to show someone a quick view of something on your screen, it's simple and easy to take the screenshot (or a screencast-like video) and then get a URL to pass along to others.

Great post!
Dan

Chris,

Thanks for taking the time to write this piece and to incorporate the response from Biz Stone. It's interesting to learn of people pushing the usage of Twitter in different ways. I don't follow FB (and don't see myself doing so) so it was good to be exposed to what was going on. It's also interesting to learn about how the folks at Twitter look for signs of spam. They have a tough challenge since the spammers out there are always looking for new ways to manipulate systems to spread their messages.

Thanks,
Dan

Chris,

I was likewise a DM and D&D player. Somewhere I'm sure I still have those dice... ;-)

Dan

Chris,

Nice job on the redesign. I like the use of the "c" "b" logo that you also used on your white paper. Great story, too!

Dan

Chris, Nice job with the e-book. Interesting way to really pull together items you've written about in multiple blog posts into a cohesive form.

One item I would add, though, would be to think about a "comment policy" if you are going to launch a blog and (presumably) allow comments. A policy doesn't have to be big or fancy, but putting some thought into ground rules for how you want the conversation to unfold on your blog *before* you start engaging in that conversation is a good idea.

Take it from someone who didn't! :-) More thoughts and links to comment policies here:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/voxeotalks/2008/01/08/co...

Anyway, I will encourage people to download your e-book. I like your "C B" logo, too.
Dan

Chris, wow! Incredibly powerful talk! Loved it: "the insatiable curiousity... the irrepressible desire to know... no matter what the subject or what the cost". And from Gandhi "Live each day as if it is your last. Learn as if you will learn forever." Powerful words.

Your own words were powerful, too, Chris. I share your concern (and those of others commenting) that people don't understand the power they possess. We are creating the future, even in simply our comments here. It is being born through our actions, our decisions, our choices... including our choices to NOT act or to NOT do. (Echoes of an old song from Rush: "Even if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and reminding us to think about it all.

Dan

P.S. Chris, I have met you, and no, I don't think you are elitist! ;-)

P.P.S. @Sam, judging by this video, I think you were very lucky to have him as a professor!

Dave - if we create a "decentralized Twitter" don't we really just wind up with..... IRC?

(Mind you, I very definitely *do* agree that Twitter needs to be more scalable - and that a decentralized system could do that.)

Congrats on the move! Your points on why you are NOT starting your own business definitely resonated with me. I recently went through a job transition and seriously looked at going out on my own, but for reasons quite similar to yours (as well as the outrageous quotes I was getting for self-employed health insurance!) I, too, chose to NOT go that route and am now extremely happy to be able to focus on what I enjoy doing.

Best wishes to you and your family and team as you go down this new path. I'll look forward to seeing what you produce!

Dan

Chris,

MANY congrats on landing the new role so quickly! It sounds like a perfect role for you and I wish you all the best with it. It was a month ago today that I started my own "dream job" that likewise came through my blogging about it and reaching out into the community. I'm incredibly pleased with how things are going and absolutely love what I'm doing. I hope that all goes as well for you and I'll look forward to continuing to read your great posts here and catching up with you at various events.

Congrats! You're an awesome guy and they are very lucky to have hired you!

Dan

Chris, very cool! Welcome to "officially" producing a show! I look forward to seeing how the show - and Magnify.net - work out for you.

Congrats,
Dan

As I said in my post when my own changes occurred back in September:

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

(From "Closing Time" by Semisonic.) You are a wonderful writer who does an excellent job explaining this evolving space of "social media". From my perspective, you've been a great evangelist for Pulvermedia... you've made outstanding contributions to the social media space (through this blog and also PodCamp).... I think you'd be a tremendous asset to anyone looking to move into the social media space! Best wishes with whatever comes next!

Dan

Chris, great collection of tips! And a fun little exercise to do.

One note... is the order in which you received the tweets reversed? I.e. are the oldest ones at the bottom and the newer ones on top?

I ask because Clintus McGintus is saying he seconds everything Steve Garfield said... but it's below him in the listing. Likewise there are several people who reference my tweet.

Not that I suggest you flip them all around, but you might want to note at the top that they are in reverse chronological order and so people might want to start reading from the bottom.

In any event, it's a great list.

Thanks,
Dan