The two-part series I posted on Tales from the Net and Wired’s How-to Wiki is starting to get some coverage.
Shai Sachs has an excellent piece on MyDD:
And
Thanks once again to all those who helped with this!
jon
PS: image from .mw on flickr, found via Creative Commons search. Thanks, .mw and CC!
This came up in Ariel’s interview with Mini on Microspotting, where Mini reflected:
It wasn’t until being summarily kicked off of Facebook that I realized Facebook has some crazy policies in place and Facebookers are overzealous in enforcing them, to a degree that it’s a relatively hostile place to invest your time and energy into. Take for example them booting Robert Scoble recently. Or Guy Kawasaki being kicked off for a bit. It’s certainly not a Nordstrom experience and I’m a bit baffled how they view their user base: with general contempt?
And I never heard back from Facebook regarding my dismissal. Maybe they just thought, “Read the rules, duh.†So I had no opportunity to go back and say “Bye†or try to make a list of my friends.
It’s interesting that of all the situations I’ve tracked down, Mini’s the only one who hasn’t been reinstated.
Mini quoted my ‘great snippet’ about how “… people see Facebook as Orwellian, panoptic, and generally creepy” and mentioned the guide on WIred, and then wrapped up this subject with
The fact that such a How-To is needed makes me appreciate, no matter how wonderful it was to connect to Mini-Microsoft readers, Facebook is the wrong place for me to be. I desperately wish there was a Facebook alternative that was a professional environment to reconnect with all my former Facebook friends.
Indeed, preferably one that’s privacy-friendly, free-speech, IP-respecting, secure, and has a great user experience.
The rest of the interview’s very interesting as well. As I commented over there,
MiniMSFT is one of the best-known workspace blogs out there, the ‘review threads’ are amazingly empowering to people across the company and the industry, and a lot of people have been inspired to take charge of their own careers — at Microsoft and elsewhere — so hopefully along with the chance to connect to readers, that outweighs Mini’s disappointment that Microsoft is pursuing a “use its size to an advantage” strategy.
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