Friday, April 10, 2009

Implementation - issues - digital history and 'free' tools

2 issues have shown themselves since submitting the design.

1. A podcast by Bud Hunt: "Worth Keeping", brought up things to consider when using online tools and storing data online. How do we know what we store online will always be there? Do we need to back things up in a secure location of our own?
Some of my 'notes' about this:



2. I have found that Picasa is free - up to a point. It offers 1Gb of online storage for free. This could be used fairly quickly if using it as the main storage for photos. Note that this also includes photos in your blog because these are stored under your Picasa account too.
Cost of upgrades start from US$20. Flickr also has limits for the free accounts - which I think are more restrictive for a regular user - 100Mb upload limit/month.

These need to be highlighted in the My Gong implementation as potential concerns.

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