Posts about social networking

Social media/blogging update

A few months ago, I decided to join Tumblr and see what it was all about. I so rarely have time for real blogging nowadays,[…]

And in other news…

It seems that FB has at least temporarily rolled back their terms of service to the previous, slighly less draconian terms until they can figure[…]

Bringing in the Feds: Eeeeven more on Facebook’s ToS changes

If you’re interested in protesting on Facebook, by the way, there’s a group of over 50,000 FB members discussing their problems with the changes. Even[…]

Facebook responds

Just saw this response from Facebook regarding the rights brou-ha-ha. We are not claiming and have never claimed ownership of material that users upload.  The[…]

Interesting take on changing terms of service w/out notification

The courts have said that it’s not acceptable. The Ninth Circuit disagreed heavily with the original ruling, saying that it was not reasonable to expect[…]

More on ToS at Facebook

Mashable has a post that says it a lot more succinctly than the concerns I was trying to express yesterday. It compares specific quotes from[…]

Concerns about Facebook’s terms of service rights claims

Facebook’s terms of service changed over a week ago, without them notifying anyone. (It’s like they think they’re a credit card company or something.) Now,[…]

Social networking gone awry

I feel a little sickened right now. I’m posting this so publicly because I think this has affected pretty much all my friends and colleagues[…]

Bring wine, not a bullhorn

I’ve found all sorts of new people on Twitter to learn from. One is Chris Webb, Associate Publisher of Technology at John Wiley and Sons.[…]