"Demand Your Data"
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
"Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook" by Ian Katz at guardian.co.uk
Whatever social site, wherever you put your data, you should make sure that you can get it back and get it back in a standard form. And in fact if I were you I would do that regularly, just like you back up your computer … maybe our grandchildren depending on which website we use may or may not be able to see our photos.
This is exactly what has me seriously considering something even more “liberated” than Wordpress.org for my post-Posterous blog. Right now, I’m looking at Scriptogr.am, and it’s very promising. Write posts in Markdown, save to Dropbox, and Scriptogr.am turns them into HTML. Scriptogr.am even has a bookmarklet, just like Posterous, Wordpress and the rest.