Bye Instagram, don’t call back now

This week Instagram changed its terms of use so that it will be able to display your “username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take” in connection with advertising without you being notified or reimbursed.

Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you.

Although later clarified by Instagram, The Terms of Use are still pretty ugly. This reenforces the Facebook approach that the users are the product that they then onsell.

We've heard you that the updates to our Privacy Policy & Terms of Service are raising a lot of questions. We'll have more to share very soon

—
Instagram (@instagram) December 18, 2012

Rights
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2. Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you. If you are under the age of eighteen (18), or under any other applicable age of majority, you represent that at least one of your parents or legal guardians has also agreed to this provision (and the use of your name, likeness, username, and/or photos (along with any associated metadata)) on your behalf.
– Terms of Use

@instagram too little, too slow, goodbye!

The only way to opt out of the new Instagram terms is to not use the service. If you log into Instagram in any way (Web site, app’s or other services) you agree to have your content used in ads.

Links:
[1] Anger at Changes on Instagram (2012-Dec-18) [NYT : Bits]
[2] How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account (2012-Dec-17) [Wired]
[3] Facebook forces Instagram users to allow it to sell their uploaded photos (2012-Dec-18) [The Guardian]
[4] Instagram makes you the product (2012-Dec-18) [The Guardian]
[5] You’ve been framed: putting you in the picture with the Instagram deal (2012-Dec-19) [The Conversation]

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[1] Retweet rollout continues (2009-Nov-10) [Twitter]
[2] Hate It Or Love It, Twitter’s New Retweet Style Is Rolling Out (2009-Nov-10) [TechCrunch]

Twitter Lists

Interesting discovery on logging into Twitter this morning, it seems that Twitter Lists have been released into the great unwashed as a BETA

Note the not so fine print “Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of friends, family, co-workers, sports teams, you name it. You’re part of a small group receiving this feature, so don’t tweet about it yet!”

Should it be surprising then that “Twitter Lists” is well intrenched in the Trending Topics?

AN Smith Lecture – Mr Mark Scott, Managing Director, ABC

AN Smith Lecture in Journalism
© The University of Melbourne, 2009. All rights reserved.
Live@Melbourne – AN Smith Lecture
Speaker: Mr Mark Scott, Managing Director, ABC
Wednesday, August 14, 2009
Start time: 6:30pm AEST
Duration: 51 min 27 sec

“For those now in media empires, those who want to survive, endure, be part of the future, there is little time to be wistful. Little time to be angry at how things have turned out. They were great days, but they are gone. Certainly there are things that can greatly concern us. Is there a business model for newspapers? How will Australian stories be told in a world awash with global content? What will we share as a community if there is no shared media experience? Where is our commons?
Certainly we see ourselves at the ABC playing an important role in meeting some of these needs. But we all know for sure, there is a greater thirst for knowledge, for insight, for entertainment, for engagement, for viewing and sharing media today than at any other time in history. Never has the audience been bigger. Never has news travelled faster, or been more accessible in more places more quickly. Never has a big news story reached larger audiences in more ways. Ways of telling stories, making them immediate and compelling and alive, have never been more vibrant.The opportunities to connect and engage have never been more exciting.”
– David Scott [3]

In relation to the Murdoch push for pay for view online content;

“You can almost hear the other proprietors urging Murdoch on, assuring him that they are right behind him and they are pushing him through that pay wall as they then scurry away to make as much as they can, for as long as they can, outside the pay wall, to be free to pick up the traffic that flees the sites that now want payment for access.“
– David Scott [4]

LINKS:
[1] AN Smith Lecture in Journalism (2009-Oct-15) [UniMelb Live@Melbourne]
[2] 2009-10-14_smith_lecture_journalism.mp4MP4, 354MB [via: feeds.unimelb]
[3] Media after Empire text of the speech (2009-Oct-14) [ABC Unleashed]
[4] ABC boss takes swipe at ‘emperor’ Murdoch (2009-Oct-15) [ABC News]
[5] The Fall of Rome: ABC Managing Director Mark Scott’s Lecture (2009-Oct-14)
[Crikey]

Cyber bullying special – ABC Melbourne (774)

Cyber bullying special – ABC Melbourne (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

… ABC Melbourne Field Reporter Richelle Hunt spent an afternoon with a group of year 12 students who opened up about how severe cyber bullying is and what we can do to stop it.
On Monday 5 October from 3-4pm Richelle was joined by Web Psychologist Sally Ann McCormack for a radio special on cyber bullying. …

Available as an MP3

Public Sphere #3

#publicsphere camp no.3 in Wollongong … #publicsphere

Melbourne Venue: Trinity College – The University of Melbourne in the Gourley Building.

Please note, whilst many of these talks will be done at Wollongong, several are prerecorded, or done from Brisbane and Melbourne. All talks will be streamed for outside viewing from a single location to be linked to this site on the day. [1]

LINKS:
[1] Public Sphere #3: Australian ICT & Creative Industries Development (2009-AUG-24) [Kate Lundy]
[2] Live feeds [Kate Lundy : Live]

Official CFA Tweets …

Results from the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission?

This account is now an OFFICIAL CFA twitter account. Thanks for your support & stay following this account for updates directly from the CFA
–@cfa_updates

Please follow @cfa_connect for CFA News, @cfa_incidents for current incidents & this account @cfa_updates for important info from the CFA
– @cfa_updates

Government 2.0: Policy and Practice

Government 2.0: Policy and Practice

Welcome to the 2nd Public Sphere topic – Government 2.0: policy and practice for Australia. An initiative by Senator Kate Lundy.

Government 2.0 is a rising topic of debate across the world. Trends in technology, media and public opinion have made it both more possible and more necessary for governments to reconsider what and how information is made freely available to the public.

This Public Sphere event will gather views on how creating an even more participatory form of government in Australia will improve the effectiveness of public administration, enable communities to better help themselves, promote renewed engagement in the democratic process and enhance our capacity to respond to emerging complex social, geopolitical and environmental challenges. We expect the topic and resulting event to bring together government practitioners and decision-makers, and interested parties outside of government.

What is a Public Sphere? A “Public Sphere” is a space that “…through the vehicle of public opinion it puts the state in touch with the needs of society” [2]. This kind of engagement in public policy is a great way to represent different views and harness a broad range of expertise, particularly on topical issues of the day.
– Public Sphere #2 – Government 2.0: Policy and Practice [Kate Lundy]

LINKS:
* #publicsphere [TweetGrid]
* Government 2.0 Video Feed – Parliament House (Audio only?)
* http://www.katelundy.com.au/live/ Live blogging and feeds
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/publicsphere
* http://wiki.katelundy.com.au/

* Kate Lundy: What I do for Open Government YouTube]