Are we getting wise? (its not MY fight)
Izimi is the next logical step in self-publishing; izimi empowers you to publish what you want, when you want, and keeps you in control - no-one’s making the rules except you.
The old social networking services dictated what you could publish, but hey, that was fine when we had no alternatives. But, as Dylan said… the times they are a changin’… (lucky you can’t actually hear my singing). Now we have alteratives.
But, what worries me most are things like the Revver spam mail I got this week (they even gave me a link cos they knew my Outlook spam filter would censor it). Two (strike that, three) things concerned me:
- First: why did I get this email into the izimi help email??? Revver MUST be harvesting email addresses from the Internet, that’s the only way I can explain it. We’re not in the habit of using corporate help emails to sign up to other people’s services. Point one: I don’t like being spammed by these corporations. Don’t spam me.
- Second: MySpace is blocking Revver embeds. Awww, shame. Isn’t that just the point, they’re as bad as one another. Revver is spamming me, and News Corp is taking it upon itself to dictate what its loyal MySpace users can and can’t publish. It really sucks.
- Third (and this just occurred to me as I write), why is Revver asking me to tell MySpace what I think. Talk about using me as a pawn in its own battles (quote “send a message to Tom and tell him that you value MySpace as an open platform and that you hope they’ll reinstate Revver embeds”). Geez, I’m just a humble user, I guess I should just do what they say and be grateful that these guys let me play with them. Nope, think again.
It’s quite sad really, kinda like two lumbering old giants having a bitch-fight - not very pretty. And they’re trying to drag me into it too. Even worse still, what’s the fight about??? Control of YOUR content! Nice one.