Disqus - Latest Comments for raccettura

Re: Our online lives slowly leak away

raccettura — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:22:44 -0000

1. Don't rely on third party services. Keep your data and back it up. I'm looking into further ways to centralize my online life by unifying... more on that to come :-)

2. You can use YOUR OWN COMPANY for offsite backups. Rackspace cloud files or Amazon's S3, Mozy, etc

If a website disappearing means you're loosing something of value... you're doing it wrong.

Re: RSS: interesting or boring? (Hint @marshallk and @louisgray, we’re not normal)

raccettura — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:02:44 -0000

This is really only half true.

Sure it shows up faster in Twitter, but the signal to noise ratio is also vastly worse. If you have all day to sit there and sort through thousands of people you follow on twitter... great. But most people have day jobs that involve something other than social media. They need to get information and get moving.

You're also relying on 1 single service to be up and running, which we all know isn't something you can rely on. This will never change as Twitter is a sole company not a network or standard. At least with RSS if Google Reader started to suck, you know another company will spring up and offer something to entice us all to switch. Nobody would skip a beat.

Twitter? Rebuild your network somewhere else.

Twitter only beats RSS if your time and effort are free.

Re: Confessions Of A Pack Rat (aka My Document Retention Policy)

raccettura — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:46:27 -0000

Right on!

If you act ethically and follow the law, those documents only help you. It's the people who try to beat the system that find paperwork to be a liability.

You can tell the ethics of someone by how well they document things. If people insist that everything be done in person and refuse to put anything to paper (or email), be afraid. I personally follow up and confirm things by email from time to time. That way if people go back on their word or change their mind... I have something to back me up.

Thanks for bringing this up. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Destroying documentation is just an admission to guilt in my opinion.

Re: categories v tags in WP?

raccettura — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:48:06 -0000

iirc there's a plugin or two.

Personally I keep a handful of categories, and utilize tags more loosely like keywords. IMHO no real point in combining since it doesn't really provide any benefit. Better off just ignoring one.

Re: The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It), by Jonathan Zittrain

raccettura — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:41:43 -0000

Damn... I've got a few books still in que. I added this to the wishlist (my ordering que). Sounds like my kind of read.

Now to add a few more hours to the day so I can do so.