There is a tale by Aesop about a conversation between a fox and a cat (somewhere between the growls and the hissing). The fox was bragging about having over a hundred ways of escaping his enemies, but the cat had only one: climbing a tree. Suddenly they heard the baying of a pack of hounds. Up the tree went the cat while the fox began to muse over the possible actions he could take: should I run down the stream to lose my scent, nah too cold today; what about over the hill and through the narrow culvert, a bit messy and I just licked my coat clean; I could pad around this tree and place my scent on the trunk so they will notice cat up above and get distracted while I make my get-away... By the time he decided on his plan of escape the hounds were on top of him. The cat watching from his safe perch purred out: "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon." http://aesopfables.com/
This tale keeps popping up in my mind (like the annoying Microsoft Word paperclip) as I learn a new Web 2.0 function. So many ways to communicate but which is the better one for the type of information you wish to broadcast? And what about copyright issues? Have I been naughty in displaying the images I have captured from the internet onto this blog, or am I reprieved by displaying the URL from which the image was found? [the image for this post came from http://www.squidoo.com/thefoxandthecat]
This tale keeps popping up in my mind (like the annoying Microsoft Word paperclip) as I learn a new Web 2.0 function. So many ways to communicate but which is the better one for the type of information you wish to broadcast? And what about copyright issues? Have I been naughty in displaying the images I have captured from the internet onto this blog, or am I reprieved by displaying the URL from which the image was found? [the image for this post came from http://www.squidoo.com/thefoxandthecat]
If I have a message or want to share an article, I can send an email to the particular people I have in mind. A blog could share this information to more people than I would have thought necessary, which could be good or a whopsie moment. My husband said that setting up a New Books blog with RSS feed would be useful, but it would only be useful if people subscribe to it which will require some advertising. Should we publish the same information in many varied Web 2.0 ways, or tailor the web 2.0 to the information?
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Oh tailor, tailor!!! :). Is my answer at least - Facebook is not a blog, a blog is not Twitter, etc...and honestly I don't think they all fit in every situation!
ReplyDeleteThe copyright thing is something I've always been concerned about too. Clearly many people just don't care, but the librarian in me cringes at that...it does seem that 99% of all the blogs I read get away with just crediting the photo/image/whatever. What have you found?
The questions you've posed here are interesting.
ReplyDeletePersonally I only use images on my blog that have been shared under a Creative Commons licence - my main source for these is Flickr.
I'm a firm believer in linking web 2.0 accounts so that you publish your information in one place e.g. a blog and then feed this to your other accounts on Facebook, Twitter etc. This way you can reach a wider audience without duplicating effort.