http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/09/one-step-forward-one-stop-back-twemes-has-gone/ Pontydysgu - Educational Research Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:43:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/09/one-step-forward-one-stop-back-twemes-has-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-7658 Frances Bell Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:25:07 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/?p=580#comment-7658 It seems to me Graham that the crucial difference here is between data and software - the former always having been more valuable than the latter. When someone gives you an API key they are giving you conditional access to their data. When you use OSS, your data is your own (subject to hosting, etc.) Using Wordpress (or whatever) as a Blogging platform only keeps us safe if we keep regular backups. I also agree with the point you make about the control lying with the Community (or more likely a very small subset of the community) but that is no guarantee of sustainability. Giving our data to twitter 140 chars at a time doesn't seem like much but presumably it has some value to them (particularly the links). It seems to me Graham that the crucial difference here is between data and software – the former always having been more valuable than the latter. When someone gives you an API key they are giving you conditional access to their data. When you use OSS, your data is your own (subject to hosting, etc.) Using WordPress (or whatever) as a Blogging platform only keeps us safe if we keep regular backups.
I also agree with the point you make about the control lying with the Community (or more likely a very small subset of the community) but that is no guarantee of sustainability.
Giving our data to twitter 140 chars at a time doesn’t seem like much but presumably it has some value to them (particularly the links).

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