y'know, what really worries me is not that a technical crash might wipe my user generated content but that 'unethical' behaviour by companies means THEY press the delete key. I put unethical in parenthesis because they wouldn't even realise that "oh just turn it off" is NOT a valid option in a social media world. At least, not without giving warning and a chance to download our content.
I've worked with more than one company who thinks it's ok to just "turn the social network off". Talk about a nightmare to fix that brand damage!
The content that you cover is very interesting and important. I have often wondered who owns the content. When you load it up, does it become the property of GoogleInc etc.
Also on a more pragmatic level, is there a way that you can back up your blogspot blog? I would be very sad to lose all my witterings.
We know that some countries such as China control access to this kind of stuff, realising the power that they have. I think that we take for granted some of these "rights."
Looking at the Haneef case, those kinds of issues are very real. Who has rights and what kinds of rights?
I spend hours a day reading legals such as the Terms of Use and particularly, the Terms of Service (end of lying)
Well, if I did read 'em, I'd be able to state with 100% accuracy that MySpace and Google YouTube keep the copyright - nope, it's no longer your stuff - but Flickr lets you retain copyright under Creative Commons. I think, that's the case, but I don't check very often. I've been kinda avoiding the whole CopyLeft issue too (Jimmy Wales endeavour).
You can backup/archive blogspot blogs. And I mean you can. I'm still waiting for Mike Seyfang to do it for me. Lazy and scared something will go wrong I guess. I've been thinking for some time of pulling it into a wordpress blog as a sort of "offsite archive".
There's a business here I reckon. Grab a domain like "unblogged.com" charge a few dollars a year to do incremental backups and archive the blog to the unblogged site. Guarantee retention of data. I'd do it but I'm lazy. :P
Not too lazy though, i'm setting up a social networks unOrganisation to address this stuff. Fun fun fun.
Colin, The instructions for backing up your blog is actually in the Blogger FAQs. It's well worth doing. I back mine up every month. It should be longer. I was going to move mine to my existing domain but I'm too lazy.
I wouldn't worry about the web as even if the Internet went down you could still play games on your computer. No need to actually talk to anyone.
I am not that bloggsessive, but I would be sad. It is part of my routine now and I would miss it. Thanks for the pointer to backing up my blog. I will do that now.
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y'know, what really worries me is not that a technical crash might wipe my user generated content but that 'unethical' behaviour by companies means THEY press the delete key. I put unethical in parenthesis because they wouldn't even realise that "oh just turn it off" is NOT a valid option in a social media world. At least, not without giving warning and a chance to download our content.
I've worked with more than one company who thinks it's ok to just "turn the social network off". Talk about a nightmare to fix that brand damage!
Thanks Laurel
The content that you cover is very interesting and important. I have often wondered who owns the content. When you load it up, does it become the property of GoogleInc etc.
Also on a more pragmatic level, is there a way that you can back up your blogspot blog? I would be very sad to lose all my witterings.
We know that some countries such as China control access to this kind of stuff, realising the power that they have. I think that we take for granted some of these "rights."
Looking at the Haneef case, those kinds of issues are very real. Who has rights and what kinds of rights?
I spend hours a day reading legals such as the Terms of Use and particularly, the Terms of Service (end of lying)
Well, if I did read 'em, I'd be able to state with 100% accuracy that MySpace and Google YouTube keep the copyright - nope, it's no longer your stuff - but Flickr lets you retain copyright under Creative Commons. I think, that's the case, but I don't check very often. I've been kinda avoiding the whole CopyLeft issue too (Jimmy Wales endeavour).
You can backup/archive blogspot blogs. And I mean you can. I'm still waiting for Mike Seyfang to do it for me. Lazy and scared something will go wrong I guess. I've been thinking for some time of pulling it into a wordpress blog as a sort of "offsite archive".
There's a business here I reckon. Grab a domain like "unblogged.com" charge a few dollars a year to do incremental backups and archive the blog to the unblogged site. Guarantee retention of data. I'd do it but I'm lazy. :P
Not too lazy though, i'm setting up a social networks unOrganisation to address this stuff. Fun fun fun.
Colin, The instructions for backing up your blog is actually in the Blogger FAQs. It's well worth doing. I back mine up every month. It should be longer. I was going to move mine to my existing domain but I'm too lazy.
I wouldn't worry about the web as even if the Internet went down you could still play games on your computer. No need to actually talk to anyone.
Get a grip man. Don't panic.
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I am not that bloggsessive, but I would be sad. It is part of my routine now and I would miss it. Thanks for the pointer to backing up my blog. I will do that now.
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