Comments on: A VRM Proposal http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2007/10/09/a-vrm-proposal/ Developing tools for customer independence and engagement with vendors Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:55:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim Allenbauer http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2007/10/09/a-vrm-proposal/comment-page-1/#comment-966 Tim Allenbauer Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:30:44 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2007/10/09/a-vrm-proposal/#comment-966 I think private date should be protected by any means. Providing more health care info be a good thing. I think private date should be protected by any means. Providing more health care info be a good thing.

]]> By: Jonathan Marks http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2007/10/09/a-vrm-proposal/comment-page-1/#comment-941 Jonathan Marks Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:23:11 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2007/10/09/a-vrm-proposal/#comment-941 I think the work you're doing here is so important. As I interview CEOs of Facebook, BEBO, etc the more I become concerned about the portability of my data and the agreements I have signed in order to use them. I think Trey has some good comments about, but I don't see how point 10 is going to work. Archiving in any business (and I'm coming from the broadcast biz) costs money, mostly in tagging it in sensible ways. So I would be happy to pay a small fee to someone (just like renting out garage space) if I knew my data was safe, not eroding, and that I could drop by and pick it all up sometime. In 15 years time will I be able to export the metadata from Flickr as well as the photos? Frankly I have been crafting most of my comments and tags in Flickr rather than some desktop program because it is easier to do, and infinitely easier to make useful collections I want to share. Because I keep back-ups of the photos, frankly if Flikcr crashed tomorrow, it would be the comments and tags that I would cry about, not the loss of the photos. So I agree with points 1-9. I just think there has to be an option for people to pay, if they choose, and get portability in return. At the moment, transparency is the big problem. I have no guarantee that my metadata is safe from a changing business model. Or have I missed something? I think the work you’re doing here is so important. As I interview CEOs of Facebook, BEBO, etc the more I become concerned about the portability of my data and the agreements I have signed in order to use them. I think Trey has some good comments about, but I don’t see how point 10 is going to work. Archiving in any business (and I’m coming from the broadcast biz) costs money, mostly in tagging it in sensible ways. So I would be happy to pay a small fee to someone (just like renting out garage space) if I knew my data was safe, not eroding, and that I could drop by and pick it all up sometime. In 15 years time will I be able to export the metadata from Flickr as well as the photos? Frankly I have been crafting most of my comments and tags in Flickr rather than some desktop program because it is easier to do, and infinitely easier to make useful collections I want to share. Because I keep back-ups of the photos, frankly if Flikcr crashed tomorrow, it would be the comments and tags that I would cry about, not the loss of the photos.

So I agree with points 1-9. I just think there has to be an option for people to pay, if they choose, and get portability in return. At the moment, transparency is the big problem. I have no guarantee that my metadata is safe from a changing business model. Or have I missed something?

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