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Facebook considered harmful?

January 16, 2008 · 26 comments

in general

Walking across campus this morning, I passed a couple dozen students with laptops open, sucking the wifi network. I wasn’t trying to snoop, but I noticed that well over half of them had browsers open to Facebook. It struck me that they are spending much of their time pumping content and data into a proprietary [...]

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Why it’s important to “own” your content

July 7, 2007 · 8 comments

in general

I’m connecting the dots between two otherwise unrelated items that were in my Google Reader inbox this morning.

Random Mind: USC Film Students Fight Back
Dave Tosh: Data Ownership

The first article is about students at USC Film School realizing that the copyright for their student films belongs to USC. Which means they can’t do things like post [...]

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