I think maybe I have a little too much storage space. Between Amazon S3, the two 500GB G-Drive Q external drives and the 500GB Apple Time Capsule, I have over 2TB of storage. I don't think I have that many photo and family videos and my iTunes library isn't that large either. The Amazon S3 is used to backup photos from our iPhoto library stored on the G-Drive Q Media and documents stored on the G-Drive Q. The Time Capsule is for backing up the three Macs via Time Machine.
Tag: Data
Elias Bizannes: You don’t nor need to own your data
One of the more lucid and erudite thoughts on data ownership.
One of the biggest questions the DataPortability project has grappled with (and where the entire industry is not at consensus), is a fairly basic question with some profound consequences: who owns your data. Well I think I have an answer to the question now, which I’ve now cross-validated across multiple domains. Given we live in the Information Age, this certainly matters in every respect.
So who owns “your data”? Not you. Or the other guy. Or the government, and the MicroGooHoo corporate monolith. Actually, no one does. And if they do, it doesn’t matter.
People like to conflate the concept of property ownership to that of data ownership. I mean it’s you right? You own your house so surely, you own your e-mail address, your name, you date of birth records, your identity. However when you go into the details, from a conceptual level, it doesn’t make sense.
MobileMe ate my contact list.
After composing an email in Gmail yesterday, I went to the address bar and started typing in my wife's name. Normally Gmail would present me with a drop down of choices, but in this case, I was present with only her MSN account email. Strange? Until I read this on the MobileMe status blog.
Yesterday (Monday) morning a syncing bug was discovered which caused contact and calendar data not to sync properly over-the-air with iPhones and iPod touch. For some users this caused their contact and calendar data to disappear from their devices, but not from their computers or the MobileMe cloud.-- MobleMe Status Blog
