Spudtater's Journal

This entry, and in fact the previous one, was created in Dreamwidth (from spudtater) and crossposted automatically to Livejournal. Now crossposting is not absolutely the best thing in the world — after all, it means giving Dreamwidth my Livejournal password, and it also means a lot of duplicated content — and two entirely different sets of comments, which is annoying.

Nonetheless, Dreamwidth sounds brilliant, and I'm not that keen on LJ anymore, so for now I'm crossposting. The full plan is:

1. For now, post to DW, crossposting automatically to LJ — but continue to read my friends list through LJ.
2. Once the DW programmers figure out how to put my LJ friends on my DW reading page, start reading from DW.
3. Close down commenting on my LJ account, making people comment over at DW instead.
4. Wait for the LJ programmers to copy DW's tactic, so that my LJ friends can then read my DW account from their friends list.
5. Finally, close down my LJ account, to avoid unnecessary superfluous redundant journals.

There's obviously a lot of assumptions there, and for all I know Dreamwidth could just slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard. But I hope not.

The new Facebook Terms of Use includes the following paragraph:

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.

Crucially, the recent change removes the following paragraph from the Terms of Use:

You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.

Link: 'Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."', The Consumerist, Feb 15 2009

You can delete, rather than simply 'deactivate', your Facebook using the following URL: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

UPDATE: They've backed down on this. New terms of use will be drawn up soon. Keep watching the skies tubes.

You Just Lost The Game!

Rules of the Game:

1. You begin playing The Game when you become aware of its existence.
2. Whenever you think about The Game, you lose.
3. When you lose The Game, you must announce your loss to everyone present.

This post is part of an attempt to document the existence and spread of The Game. To help, please copy this to your own journal and then edit the following page to track its progress through LiveJournal:

http://www.savethegame.org/wiki/List_of_blog_entries_about_The_Game