Comments on: End of Yahoo 360 blogs: The perils of trusting corporate sites to store your data. And how about the URL issue? http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/end-of-yahoo-360-blogs-why-you-must-back-up-data-stored-on-social-sites/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/end-of-yahoo-360-blogs-why-you-must-back-up-data-stored-on-social-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-1069001 Steve Jordan Sun, 31 May 2009 11:13:11 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/30/end-of-yahoo-360-blogs-why-you-must-back-up-data-stored-on-social-sites/#comment-1069001 I don't think bringing this up in this way is exaggerating the matter at all. The thing is, a lot of people really don't care about how transitory online services can be... and these are the overwhelming masses the companies are really playing to. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who don't understand that fact, and don't know how to independently secure or backup their content... they are the ones who get screwed. And the problem is not limited to blogs, as those of us around here realize. Pretty much any electronic data that you store in one place exclusively, and especially a place you have no personal control over, is likely to be lost sooner or later. I don't see this as a condemnation of services like Yahoo's, however, as much as it is an urgent admonition to independently backup any important data you have, so you can move it to another location if necessary, and you won't be screwed like this. And if a service does not allow you to independently backup your data for use elsewhere, you should think thrice about using it. And obviously, e-book enthusiasts should heed this advice... I don’t think bringing this up in this way is exaggerating the matter at all. The thing is, a lot of people really don’t care about how transitory online services can be… and these are the overwhelming masses the companies are really playing to. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who don’t understand that fact, and don’t know how to independently secure or backup their content… they are the ones who get screwed.

And the problem is not limited to blogs, as those of us around here realize. Pretty much any electronic data that you store in one place exclusively, and especially a place you have no personal control over, is likely to be lost sooner or later.
I don’t see this as a condemnation of services like Yahoo’s, however, as much as it is an urgent admonition to independently backup any important data you have, so you can move it to another location if necessary, and you won’t be screwed like this. And if a service does not allow you to independently backup your data for use elsewhere, you should think thrice about using it.

And obviously, e-book enthusiasts should heed this advice…

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