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Albert: Re: Twitter is evil
Forum Post, August, 21 2011
Michael Albert
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I and many other people learn important things, at times, from the New York Times - that doesn't in the slightest negate a critique of the NYT. Same holds here. But in this case, the issue is not simply content - but, for Twitter - what a name...
Kreider: Twitter is evil
Forum Post, August, 21 2011
Aaron Kreider
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But due to Twitter (which only use sporadically), I realized several days before Jan 25th that it looked like North Africa and the Middle East could all explode in revolution. And then following Twitter + Al Jazeera during the Egyptian movem...
Kreider: Re: speaking of open source...
Forum Post, August, 21 2011
Aaron Kreider
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And whether or not you do open source, it'd be nice to encourage user participation in testing it. I previously gave some feedback to ZSpace on usability issues and would like to do so again. I think you could facilitate a grou...
Solomon: speaking of open source...
Forum Post, August, 12 2011
James Solomon
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Is there a ZSocial developer site? It would make sense to apply open source principles to its development, as you'll generally end up with more robust features and better security.
Albert: Re: Living the alternatives involves costs - material, intellectual and social.
Forum Post, August, 03 2011
Michael Albert
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I basically agree with your formulations, but you seem to go further than I would - which is perfectly reasonable, but I think not a priority... That is, often, alternative isn't really particularly alternative. It is just smaller, say - but ...
Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Commons
Forum Post, August, 03 2011
Michael Albert
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> A lot of people in IT who do actual programming are actually quite skeptical of managers and hierarchical authority ... thus could be described as somewhat 'libertarian' :- the challenge is to convince them to be left-libertarian rath...
Australis: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Commons
Forum Post, August, 03 2011
Companero Australis
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> Are you Australian? Hi Michael - yes, certainly am ;) I guess the reason I'm personally very involved in the Open Source issue as I work in the IT industry. A lot of people in IT who do actual programming are actually quite skeptical o...
Sfakakis: Re: Living the alternatives involves costs - material, intellectual and social.
Forum Post, August, 03 2011
Manos Sfakakis
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Hi Reiter, I do also share such feelings about other people feeling detached at the attempt to find socialy beneficial alternatives. I am also in general agreement with you on the reasons you present. Thus, I regard this as the reality I am faced...
Reiter: Living the alternatives involves costs - material, intellectual and social.
Forum Post, August, 02 2011
I.N. Reiter
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I´m trying to replace as much corporate offers as possible by better alternatives (or which I based on my limited knowledge perceive as "better") in order to support them. But many people refuse to do so, even if they know the bad ...
Albert: Re: Re: Re: The Commons
Forum Post, August, 02 2011
Michael Albert
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Are you Australian? I felt they were potentially important too - for quite awhile - but after talking with folks, writing about it, debating in some cases, inviting, urging, emailing, etc., seeing the lack of inclination to do anything beyo...
Australis: Re: Re: The Commons
Forum Post, August, 02 2011
Companero Australis
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The Free Software and Open Source movements are really quite significant as at least a potential alternative to capitalist modes of production, and given the importance of information technology to modern economies and culture (a point Michael'...
Albert: Re: My 2 cents
Forum Post, August, 01 2011
Michael Albert
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I understand what you are saying, it just doesn't solve my confusion. There is almost nothing in this society that isn't horrendously alienated. Racial, gender, power, and profit dictates are either front and center, or at least lurking, ...
Albert: Re: Re: Re: The Commons
Forum Post, August, 01 2011
Michael Albert
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If open source means very little, there is very little reason to relate to it. In fact, however, it actually does have some meaning, and some agenda - bearing on intellectual property, etc., by and large reasonable and even progressive, though ver...
Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Commons
Forum Post, August, 01 2011
Michael Albert
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Hi Katie.... Ownership is certainly a big problem - the pursuit of profit as the guiding motive. But I wouldn't say it is all of it, or really perhaps even the heart of it. Take Facebook and Twitter and have them publicly owned and it isn'...
Matthews: My 2 cents
Forum Post, August, 01 2011
Robert Matthews
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"The thing is, even if all leftists do such investigating and come away convinced of the disease ridden character of mainstream social networking, searching, etc., still, my experiences suggest many and perhaps most will nonetheless pause at ...
B: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Commons
Forum Post, August, 01 2011
Katie B
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But in response to what is actually in the article you wrote, I agree that ownership is the real problem. The ideas behind facebook and twitter would be great if they were publicly owned (I love that I can easily see the latest pictures of m...
Rodriguez: Re: Re: Spot on
Forum Post, August, 01 2011
Paulo Rodriguez
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Just realized that the title of my reply and its content didn't match my initial intent, and I ended up digressing into slight negativity. Obviously, I can't wait to take the new social platform for a spin. Thanks for (once again!)...
B: Re: Re: The Commons
Forum Post, August, 01 2011
Katie B
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Your thoughts on the open source community are interesting and I think you make some good points, but I don't know if I totally agree with you. For starters, I've never really viewed the open source community as an organized group.&...
Rodriguez: Re: Re: Spot on
Forum Post, August, 01 2011
Paulo Rodriguez
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Hi Mr. Petersen, Pretty sure my concerns stem from my short-lived membership at the PVDA , basically the communist party here in Belgium, during my younger years. You are correct though, the diversity of topics and opinions on ZNet makes t...
Albert: Re: Re: Re: The Commons
Forum Post, August, 01 2011
Michael Albert
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IT is a chicken and egg situation - there are certainly more than enough leftists to make it large enough so that there are plenty of people to engage with as allies friends, and others to engage with to learn from or try to convince, etc. etc. - ...
