Whenever Doc creates a major post - he gets all sorts of feedback. So I’ve learned to wait a day before responding - and sure ‘nuf a whole bunch of stuff explodes around Doc’s post. And since Jason Calacanis used my name (and even mispelled it) I feel even more obligated to weigh in on Doc’s treatise. So let me just say this:

1. I really dig the notion of creating our own rules. That’s what the DataSharingSummit was all about, what our ‘Bill of Rights for Users of Social Media” is and what the new DataPortability.com site is all about. No reason to sit around complaining and doing nothing - we need to stand on the mountain top and start YELLING.

2. I also agree that the hogs will get butchered. That’s why I KNEW that Facebook would open up the world of social networking - even if they only went 98% of the way. And that’s why Google raised the bar even further. And it doesn’t end there. Open is the new black.

3. Users will always win in the end. Know why? Cause it’s our money we’re spending. You’d think these ‘marketeers would figure that out.

4. Zuckerberg is right - the times they are a changing. The only issue is ‘on who’s terms’ and who benefits? Its funny how Facebook keeps doing coolio new stuff, but gets it wrong in the final 2%. I wonder if that the VCs influence?  I bet it is. I bet Jim Breyer and Peter Thiel think they’re SO SMART - manipulating poor little Mark.  He’s got that smirk on his face(book) for some reason. So is 98% innovation more important than no innovation at all?

5. I’m not too uptight at whether MoveOn.org gets involved or not. We need help. But it is kind of weird that orgs like TechNet or EFF don’t. Isn’t that what they’re supposed to be doing? Where’s Cory Doctorow and Joi Ito when we need them? Larry Lessig should be drafting class action lawsuits.

7. Doc has a great pro-active effort - called VRM. Kaliya Hamlin, Doc and others run these IIW uncamps. We’re not sitting still - we’re creating our own rules. Now the trick is to get anybody to listen.

8. Remember AttentionTrust.org? What happened to that?

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