[FM Discuss] Open source social media manual?

[Tomi Toivio]

I think if I translate the applicable chapters to get started and then try
to get some alternative media journalists interested in these issues to
collaborate on a manual? Then the new material should be translated into
English? And then expanded? And translated into different languages? And so
on?

Seems like social media is pretty much global now, both the proprietary and
open source versions? Finland had local proprietary microblogging services
like Jaiku and Qaiku, but they lost most of the users to Twitter. Which is
funny, since Twitter is either overloaded or feels like 2000 people sending
you SMS messages at the same time. Status.net could easily be the sane and
more focused alternative without excessive information overload?

But then again lookie look what we are doing here: Using the ancient social
media known as "the mailing list." The manual should point out that the
internet is a social media by default.

Regards
Tomi


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:09 PM, mick fuzz <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org>wrote:

> Plunder this for some good stuff.
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activists-2/_edit/
>
> Also we would like to add stuff on diaspora / friendica
> and search engines like http://duckduckgo.com/
> which have a better privicy policy
> but does anyone actually know them? do we just trust them because they
> say they don't log ip addresses?
>
> Also for a good laugh check
>
>  * http://skipity.com
>
> they're pretty aware about privacy issues. check their privacy policy!
>
> nice one
> mick
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:02 PM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > thumbs up from me....we could also include elgg and info on ostatus...
> >
> > also booki is to some extend a social network platform...i think this is
> a
> > great idea :)
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 02/01/2012 05:37 PM, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> So when are we going to do a book about open source social media
> >> alternatives like Identi.ca and Diaspora? There is an urgent need to get
> >> people to join something less monolithic than the proprietary ones I
> dare
> >> not to mention.
> >>
> >> I don't mean a manual only about the technological aspects, ie. "push a
> >> button to publish a status update" or "how to set up your own Diaspora
> >> pod." It should definitely include the social and political aspects,
> since
> >> a lot of interesting information about the behavior patterns and even
> the
> >> political effects of social media are already available.
> >>
> >> I was just reading some Finnish books about proprietary social media and
> >> they were basically quite shallow. I think that FLOSS Manuals could
> easily
> >> create something that would have a lot more depth.
> >>
> >> And definitely do a chapter about IRC, which is basically a
> decentralized
> >> social media and has been around since 1988. (Usenet just had too bad
> >> privacy settings. You cannot find my IRC logs from 1994 with Google, but
> >> the Usenet will be available forever?)
> >>
> >> Then you might collect some interesting background stories from around
> the
> >> world. It might be interesting for you to know that the first Finnish
> >> Facebook-like social media was the IRC Gallery, which was basically set
> up
> >> for IRC users to share their pictures while chatting, but got swamped by
> >> hundreds of thousands of non-IRCing teenagers, who ended up thinking
> that
> >> IRC meant the website.
> >>
> >> What do you think about this idea? Is there a need for a book on the
> open
> >> source alternatives? Thumbs up or ignore?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Tomi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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