Keith Hart on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:42:41 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Has Facebook superseded Nettime? |
Nettime might consider a move to Ning which has a Facebook look without being as addicted to infotainment. Some of us started an Open Anthropology Cooperative there four months ago. We have almost 2,000 members already and quite a lot of activity, generally of a serious intellectual sort. What is impressive is the global reach. We are creating a new portal that would lead to the social networking site and to a repository at wikidot, a publishing outlet and other possibilities that need not be tied to the Ning format. http://openanthcoop.ning.com/ Keith -- Prof. Keith Hart www.thememorybank.co.uk 135 rue du Faubourg Poissonniere 75009 Paris, France Cell: +33684797365 --00c09ffb4d2fd1287404742af7e9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nettime might consider a move to Ning which has a Facebook look without bei= ng as addicted to infotainment. Some of us started an Open Anthropology Coo= perative there four months ago. We have almost 2,000 members already and qu= ite a lot of activity, generally of a serious intellectual sort. What is im= pressive is the global reach. We are creating a new portal that would lead = to the social networking site and to a repository at wikidot, a publishing = outlet and other possibilities that need not be tied to the Ning format.<br= > <br><a href=3D"http://openanthcoop.ning.com/">http://openanthcoop.ning.com/= </a><br><br>Keith<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at= 10:58 PM, Florian Cramer <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:fc-nettim= e@pleintekst.nl">fc-nettime@pleintekst.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, = 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <br> For about two years, I've noted that a sizable part of the media<br> artistic, -activist and -scholarly community that makes up Nettime has<br> moved to Facebook, in the sense of being more active and networked there<br= > than here. At the same time, there seems to no public discussion of<br> this fact, making Facebook an elephant in the room. I'm speculating tha= t<br> Facebook is seen as a friendlier environment - but nobody dares to<br> mention it because, among others, it's a corporate site built on blatan= t<br> user data mining [see <a href=3D"http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=3D86= 3" target=3D"_blank">http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=3D863</a>] with<= br> scary surveillance and privacy implications.<br> <br> What is the solution? Is something like Facebook needed, but as a<br> decentralized, non-data-minable, user-owned system?<br> <br> -F<br> <br> --<br> blog: =A0 =A0 <a href=3D"http://en.pleintekst.nl" target=3D"_blank">http://= en.pleintekst.nl</a><br> homepage: <a href=3D"http://cramer.pleintekst.nl:70" target=3D"_blank">http= ://cramer.pleintekst.nl:70</a><br> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0gopher://<a href=3D"http://cramer.pleintekst.nl" target= =3D"_blank">cramer.pleintekst.nl</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> # =A0distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission<= br> # =A0<nettime> =A0is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,<br> # =A0collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets<br> # =A0more info: <a href=3D"http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l"= target=3D"_blank">http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l</a><br> # =A0archive: <a href=3D"http://www.nettime.org" target=3D"_blank">http://w= ww.nettime.org</a> contact: <a href=3D"mailto:nettime@kein.org">nettime@kei= n.org</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>Prof. Keith Hart<br><a = href=3D"http://www.thememorybank.co.uk">www.thememorybank.co.uk</a><br>135 = rue du Faubourg Poissonniere<br>75009 Paris, France<br>Cell: +33684797365<b= r> --00c09ffb4d2fd1287404742af7e9-- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org