If you lost your blogroll, how would you start again?
I'll leave you with this question. Hopefully when I return, my Bloglines subs will be back, but what would you do if all of a sudden you lost your subscriptions? All those magical little discoveries you had made over a year or two?
And second, what would be your back up procedure so it didn't happen again?
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posted by Nancy White at 6:58 AM
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It's been a horrible morning! I never thought about backing up my feeds - until now. I guess that will be my little job for this evening!
I once deleted my entire blogroll (on purpose!) and started from scratch. I quickly got back up to about the same number of subs but it was a lot fresher and included a lot of stuff I hadn't discovered before. I found it to be good exercise and a good way to break out of a reading rut.
Mine went down and I finally switched to NetNews Wire ... it has some really cool features ... the best being the sync feature. I am using it now and it is easy to get rolling ... I wrote about my bloglines stuff this morning and how it would kill me if it all went away. Backed up my opml of my feeds as soon as the site came back.
I guess that's the problem with leaving things online, it only works if it's there. If there's an outage or something crashes, then you're out of luck. We all rely on the Internet and online storage, it's great, because we can access it anytime and anywhere. But when something like this happens (where the blogroll is lost), then you understand the implications that web technologies may be ubiquitous but are still not yet robust.
That's why it's sometimes better to maintains thing on your own local server than someone else's, you control what happens, and you can do whatever you need to do to maintain it.
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