My in-flight reading for last week’s trip to Cleveland was Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. (Yes, oh FTC inspectors, that’s an Amazon Affiliate Link.) I don’t buy hardcover books by just anyone, but I’m a big fan of Chris Brogan’s, and increasingly impressed by what I hear of Julien Smith on the Media Hacks … [Read more...]
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Cyber Crime & Warfare
About a week ago I was approached by a representative of Backup Technology, a leading British firm providing online backup and data recovery services with an offer to write a guest post for the blog. I explained that I was happy to publish guest posts if they were relevant to the audience of small and home-office computer users and as long as the author’s affiliation with the company in question … [Read more...]
Studies Show Business Owners Confuse Backup with Disaster Preparedness
In the past few weeks, I’ve received news of two different surveys that reach similar conclusions: businesses are not as prepared to face disasters as they think they are. Here in California—where we have wildfires in the hot season, mudslides and flash floods in the rainy season, and earthquakes all year round—disaster preparedness is a common theme. But disaster preparedness is rather like … [Read more...]
Backing Up Firefox
A couple of weeks ago, the Ur-Guru helped me reinstall my main computer, Enheduanna. (Alas, I can’t blame the hiatus in backup reminders on that, but I do have to admit that this tour-guide business leaves me a lot less time for blogging.) One of the things he pointed out in the course of installing software was that I could save myself time on the next reinstall if I backed up my complete Firefox … [Read more...]
Always Make a Backup Recording
I was going to write about this last week, but I neglected to provide myself with a backup set of arms to type with, so the post got postponed due to physical incapacity. In the meantime, another example of why this is important landed in my lap. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that one of my businesses is podcasting. On March 21st I was recording the “Get Published!” … [Read more...]
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