Comments on: Response to sharecropping.. http://ahinson7.edublogs.org/2008/04/17/89/ Education, Technology and Culture...from a country girl Thu, 07 May 2009 01:16:25 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: D'Arcy Norman http://ahinson7.edublogs.org/2008/04/17/89/comment-page-1/#comment-28 D'Arcy Norman Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:29:19 +0000 http://ahinson7.edublogs.org/2008/04/17/89/#comment-28 It's NOT about money. Well, not completely, anyway. It's about giving control, even ownership in some cases, of our content to a third party. To any third party. If the content we produce has any meaning, any value (however that is measured - and it's not just financial), then how can we justify giving it to anyone? Especially when the tools that are used to publish, manage, and present the content are so trivially available to anyone who wants them? It's not about money. It's about control. It's about ownership. It’s NOT about money. Well, not completely, anyway. It’s about giving control, even ownership in some cases, of our content to a third party. To any third party. If the content we produce has any meaning, any value (however that is measured – and it’s not just financial), then how can we justify giving it to anyone? Especially when the tools that are used to publish, manage, and present the content are so trivially available to anyone who wants them?

It’s not about money. It’s about control. It’s about ownership.

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