Week 4, Assignment #8 First Clip

http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=2787044&site=12846126

This whole thing about how hard it can be to find things on the internet sometimes. A conversation on Twitter at ALA, and how it got archived and now it's hard to find and there was good information in there etc.... well I haven't gotten as far as Twitter yet, but I can see some truth to this. I have heard this kind of comment before too. When you don't own the content, when you aren't hosting the site, etc... you can't control the information. When you have your own website and you post something, it stays put. However, if you put something on Facebook or Twitter, or MySpace or whatever, and then the people who run those services decide to do a reformat or if they go down or whatever, you lose your stuff and have to start all over again etc etc etc. It's something to consider. There are lots of places to put your stuff. Facebook might be popular now, but if something better comes along, or if Facebook does something stupid, then you have to start all over again. Just a thought.