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Humanist Archives: Nov. 2, 2018, 8:01 a.m. Humanist 32.153 - Zuckerberg's monster

                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 153.
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        Date: 2018-11-01 10:29:15+00:00
        From: davep@davelinux.info
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.151: Zuckerberg's monster

Interesting. Ppl may object that what I am about to offer is too
political, but here goes. We - esp. UK HE - had the opportunity to devise
an alternative to the Facebook oligopoly. UK HE declined and its IT ppl
elected to take the line of least resistance (as with persisting with
Microsoft and, in some cases, Blackboard). Surely HE could have produced
its own system - or even have adopted Diaspora. But no, UK HE continues to
pay the corporate shilling and, for the most part, ignore OpenSource.
Rant over.
DP


On Thu, November 1, 2018 7:49 am, Humanist wrote:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 151.
> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
> www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
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> Date: 2018-10-31 10:36:04+00:00
> From: Willard McCarty 
> Subject: the online monster
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> See my colleague John Naughton's posting, "Mark Zuckerberg’s dilemma -
> what to do with monster he has created?" on openDemocracyUK, at
>
> https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/john-naughton/mark-zuckerberg-s-dilemma-
> what-to-do-with-monster-he-has-created
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> Yours,
> WM
> --
> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor emeritus, Department of
> Digital Humanities, King's College London; Adjunct Professor, Western
> Sydney University; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
> (www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20)



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