Do Blog providers back-up and save Blogs?
One thing that I didn't find in the readings or maybe I missed was whether blog providers like blogger.com save all the blogs on some secure server somewhere. The only reason I thought of this was that my husband was considering using a blog to record family memories that disappear so quickly and would be fun to look back on at sometime. For example, my son had a good/guy bad guy phase which involved making us tell him whether every person, animal or even thing was a good guy or bad guy in books we read to him. This dominated our lives for months. He doesn't do it anymore and in two years I'm sure that we'll forget he ever did that. If we recorded these things which my husband tries to in a paper notebook then we'd have a record. A blog would be cleaner and easier and grandparents might get a kick out of it and post a comment or two. However, if blogger disappears so would the blog and all of our memories. Besides creating our own blog which I have no time to do, there must be some blog providers who scurely save information that bloggers don't want to lose.
posted by Katharine @ 9:03 PM
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An excellent point, Katherine. And you're right, no one talks about this issue, do they? It's a "caveat emptor" situation with blogs, for the most part, which is something all bloggers need to think about, whether it's a library publishing news & events, or a family that wants to preserve memories! If you go digging into the support pages of some blogging tools, you will probably find some info on how to back-up your blog content (here's Blogger's - pretty complicated!) but it is interesting that there are few blogging tools that make overt claims to back up your data for you (even though some might). I think this is probably a side effect of the 2.0, "perpetual beta" web world we now live in.
I've almost been tempted to print off the online "paper" trail I've left behind me. A site like The Wayback Machine is a useful tool, but I still feel as if electronic memory keeping is somewhat fickle! Or maybe I am just a slave to paper??
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