Comments for Throughline http://www.throughline.co.uk How do you change... what others choose? Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:19:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Comment on Indy Neogy by 10 books by the spring? « Live Long and Prosper http://www.throughline.co.uk/who-we-are/our-people/indy-neogy/comment-page-1/#comment-187 10 books by the spring? « Live Long and Prosper Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:19:25 +0000 http://www.jwbriggs.net/theresa/#comment-187 [...] branding (Dave Allen), user-centred design (William Hudson) and cross-cultural communication (Indy Neogy) – it’s also probably about time to add second editions to the books that started it [...] [...] branding (Dave Allen), user-centred design (William Hudson) and cross-cultural communication (Indy Neogy) – it’s also probably about time to add second editions to the books that started it [...]

]]> Comment on Uh-oh by Kristine Karlsen http://www.throughline.co.uk/2011/02/28/uh-oh/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Kristine Karlsen Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:58:22 +0000 http://www.throughline.co.uk/?p=2435#comment-131 Storing information online is a great way of having access to your data from anywhere, to share it with anyone you choose and all without having to bring heavy storage solutions along for the journeys. I've not quite joined this revolution myself. While I keep a large amount of personal stuff online, like photos and emails etc. - I mostly use online storage as back-up. I still lug my heavy laptop pretty much everywhere I go, and I keep back-ups of important stuff on external hard-drives (having been the victim of lost data once too often to not have wizened up). I feel unable to completely trust the cloud. It's intangible, and remote, and I don't feel I have enough control over it to commit all my storage needs to a service who's physical location is not known. But it's the way forward. Who needs a large server room when you can hire space from server farms. Let someone else take care of maintenance and upgrades. It's fuelling small service providers who might not otherwise be able to run their business. It's allowing me to wire-frame the website I'm building entirely online and sharing it with my website developer and business partner in real time. The cloud is amazing. I just don't trust it yet. Storing information online is a great way of having access to your data from anywhere, to share it with anyone you choose and all without having to bring heavy storage solutions along for the journeys. I’ve not quite joined this revolution myself. While I keep a large amount of personal stuff online, like photos and emails etc. – I mostly use online storage as back-up.
I still lug my heavy laptop pretty much everywhere I go, and I keep back-ups of important stuff on external hard-drives (having been the victim of lost data once too often to not have wizened up).

I feel unable to completely trust the cloud. It’s intangible, and remote, and I don’t feel I have enough control over it to commit all my storage needs to a service who’s physical location is not known. But it’s the way forward.

Who needs a large server room when you can hire space from server farms. Let someone else take care of maintenance and upgrades. It’s fuelling small service providers who might not otherwise be able to run their business. It’s allowing me to wire-frame the website I’m building entirely online and sharing it with my website developer and business partner in real time.

The cloud is amazing. I just don’t trust it yet.

]]> Comment on Uh-oh by Guy Harvey http://www.throughline.co.uk/2011/02/28/uh-oh/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Guy Harvey Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:51:44 +0000 http://www.throughline.co.uk/?p=2435#comment-112 Like the article. Protecting data also gets more interesting when you start including earth quakes and other disasters. My photographer friend in New Zealand said many artists lost their life's work in Christchurch. They had triple back up but when whole buildings housing servers were destroyed, that was it! I guess the cloud is great as long as someone is watching the cloud carefully! Like the article. Protecting data also gets more interesting when you start including earth quakes and other disasters. My photographer friend in New Zealand said many artists lost their life’s work in Christchurch. They had triple back up but when whole buildings housing servers were destroyed, that was it!

I guess the cloud is great as long as someone is watching the cloud carefully!

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