I talked about the subject of possession of your data 2004,, 2007,, 2009,, 2014& 2017. In summary, I promoted to have a blog or a personal website to initially publish work, then share them on various social networks (controlled by someone else) as they go.
In 2014, I wrote an article sponsored by Cisco, on “Internet of everything” (IOE) and Have our data. I said that the danger is that a few companies will have control of the data factories and that the freelancers will become the product. As they say with social media, if you do not pay for service, you are the product. The IOE can increase the speed of automation, which makes more human work obsolete, because the data becomes a capital resource. Will the data factories become the new breed of the intermediaries while the freelancers will lose control? This could be an increasing field of social and economic tension in the near future.
This future is there.
In a 2009 article on Blogs as a social media attachment base I have created an image that is still relevant today – contextualize what you see, create content, connect with others and co -create with them.
Molly White created (referred to) a better acronym to own your data online – posse = post (on) clean site, union elsewhere.
Rather than publishing an article on someone else's servers on Twitter or Mastodon or Bluesky or Threads or whatever the microblogging service will inevitably occur, publications are published locally on a service that you control. At this stage, the rest is simple (if not easy): plug the social media sites you want, and unionize messages through them either by copying the post there directly, or by publishing an extract with an original link.
I did not do this with Twitter and I do not practice posse on mastodon. Instead, I publish my Friday finds To summarize what I found online, it was interesting or informative.
Whatever your practice, possession of your data and publication on your own site are good long -term strategies. I started to publish here in 2004.
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