This web site is powered by my own minimalistic wiki engine called [[GeekiGeeki]].
-Why would someone host my own wiki, blog and photo sharing when there are dozens of
+Why would someone self-host a wiki, blog and photo sharing when there are dozens of
free-beer alternatives online?
-It's a matter of remaining [[http://autonomo.us/about/ | autonomous]] from online services as
-much as possible. Call me a fundamentalist, but I find it very disturbing to give up my
-online identity to services whose conditions are established and changed unilaterally.
+It's a matter of being reasonably [[http://autonomo.us/about/ | autonomous]] from online services.
+Relying on services whose terms of use are changed unilaterally makes me uncomfortable.
The [[http://opendefinition.org/ | definition of open knowledge]] is still a subject of
-discussion. At this time, I tend to boycot those online web services that make it
-intentionally hard bulk access to data created collaboratively by their users.
+debate. At this time, I avoid web services that disallow
+bulk access to data created collaboratively by their users.
Examples of such badly behaving sites are [[http://www.imdb.com | IMDB]] and
-[[http://flickr.com | Flickr]]: both have been created by us, but try downloading
-substantial portions of their data, if you can. On the other end of the spectrum,
-the [[http://wikipedia.org | Wikipedia]] provides an interface to dump the
-entire database, including the history of edits. This is what we should demand
+[[http://flickr.com | Flickr]]: both have been created by us users, but try downloading
+substantial portions of their data... On the other end of the spectrum,
+[[http://wikipedia.org | Wikipedia]] provides an interface to dump the
+entire database, including the edit history. This is what we should demand
from any online resource built collaboratively.
My current personal policy is to use those non-reciprocal services in read-only
projects / wiki.git / commitdiff