[FM Discuss] Open source social media manual?
helen varley jamieson
helen at creative-catalyst.com
Wed Feb 1 15:50:23 PST 2012
love the skipity privacy policy! :D
it sounds like a great book tomi; i am still travelling heaps & only
just managing to stay on top of everything so i'm hesitant to commit to
helping, also i'm a really bad "social media" user - just don't have the
time or the need! but it sounds like a book i'd love to read, & i'm a
great proofreader :)
h : )
On 2/02/12 6:49 AM, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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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