Monthly Archives: June 2010

Do you ever read privacy or licensing blurbs?

June 28, 2010

…this one from an analytics tool for twitter search says that you retain ownership of your content, but give over rights to SNS Analytics http://w.sns.ly/in every way they have imagined, or not thought up yet…GEEZ..

“While you own all of your own User-Generated Content, you hereby grant us, our licensees of the Applications and business partners a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use and exploit your User-Generated Content for any purpose.

..you hereby grant us, our licensees of the Applications and business partners the right to publicly exhibit, display, reproduce, store, distribute, alter or make other use of videos, photographs, images or likenesses of you, or in which you may be included with others.

..you consent to such uses in **any medium now known or developed in the future**, including photographs, video, slide shows, Internet images or other mediums, means of storage or distribution. You agree that such images and likenesses of you can be used with or without your name. **You give this permission without any limitation whatsoever**”

Waste Reduction

June 24, 2010

My college is implementing an enhanced recycling plan. All trash cans have been removed from our offices. Many have also been removed from our public areas as well. We are a full service library. We receive a lot of junk mail that needs to be discarded. We have a print station for students and they do not always leave with their printouts.

I wanted to discard a piece of junk mail. After I removed the plastic wrapper I put the paper in one of our old and large paper recycling bins that was hidden and has not been removed….and I’m hoping that we can keep it.

So my next task was to throw out the plastic wrapper. It sort of fit in a small plastic container meant for our real waste. Some of this must be thought out further. What works for an individual office space will quickly spill over in our public areas, even for recyclables.

Patience please, this blog will be up again ASAP!

June 13, 2010

So you may ask, what’s taking so long to rebuild this blog? Well, with a little help from my son, I got my blog up and running again. And then I was so happy with the new features of WordPress, that I just went on and on changing this and that…until I got spammed with the ‘Silence is Golden’ blog configuration spam. Short story is that my blog went blank and the shortest path without a reliable backup, was to rebuild :-) …and that is still in progress. Many old posts and new ones are yet to be ported over….again :-)

What’s the take home message here. Friends should not let friends run old blog sites. It’s much better to upgrade now and then.