On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:30:05PM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote: > Hi Nick. You may wish to contact David J Patrick who founded > LinuxCaffe (http://www.linuxcaffe.ca) in Toronto, Canada many years > ago. LinuxCaffe is a successful business providing coffee & light > food running completely on Linux/FOSS. > > I assisted David with some of the early sysadmin/architectural work > for LinuxCaffe.
Thanks. I'll look into it. > I have to say that a small business should not pass up any legal, > ethically sound advertising option. Starting a successful small > business is hard enough as it is. > > My personal opinion is to use Facebook and Twitter as tools to > deliver your message. I'd recommend using alternatives such as > identi.ca *as well*. I've never heard about identi.ca. I'll look into it. > Regarding privacy, you should only post only as much info as you are > happy to provide. It is true that data mining techniques can infer > things about you from what you 'like' and even what your friends > 'like' but a company facebook page wouldn't be used in the same way > as a personal page so I don't see there would be a lot of data to > mine. Using centralized, proprietary social media just doesn't sit well with me. What if, for some particular event or special, I *have* to give out more info than I'm comfortable with? Then I'm worse off in the long run. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120210020825.GD29853@phobos
