I heard about Microsoft's MSN Spaces Blog service. I checked it out and it looks slick - even in my Mozilla browser in Linux. The service does censor the blog content to a degree. Here is a screenshot of the censorship in action. (via boing boing)
One item that bothers me is content ownership:
MSN Spaces forces new users to grant Microsoft permission to "use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat" their blog postings. (via C-Net)
Bloggers put a lot of time and energy into their blogs. Whether we license using Creative Commons or full copyright we still own our blogs. Microsoft again plays god with it's customers by taking control of copyright. How can any writer give up his or her words? Microsoft has so much - do they need our voices too?
4 comments:
I'm not bothered what anyone does with my words or pictures if they're sad enough to want them.
I very rarely post other peoples pictures on my site though as I respect their copyright.
As for censorship...if you post certain words on your current blog...you will be filtered anyway.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=websense
I tried this out, as well as wordpress (having a domain and hosting means experimenting I guess!), and I wasn't a big fan of it. Like I said in the post, it is ok.
Heres what mine looks like http://spaces.msn.com/members/tamposi/
Mick - that link makes you think doesn't it. At least here we have the illusion of freedom.
Lou - it looks ok. The templates seem more bland and generic than even the basic blogger templates.
The wordpress looks interesting. Your link didn't work here it is again: http://tamposi.net/lou/wordpress/index.php
Whoops, I didn;t even realise I had caps lock on. It works for me with out the "index.php". I think it was the capslock.
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