Regardless of how convenient and well organized your operations can become, with an advanced technology, there is always a certain level of risk involvement. A single technical error can endanger your entire documentary and work assets.
In just under a week of official release, Nexus One has already got custom cooked ROMs waiting to be flashed on the said handset. Paul over at the Modaco forums has released one of the first custom ROM for Nexus One which packs a custom kernel, and includes busybox, nano 2.09, parted and sqlite tools, Wireless Tethering option (Yay!), titanium backup and more.
Bob Rankin tips us: "It allows you to back up all of your tweets, which is a huge advantage since Twitter does not store more than 3200 tweets at a time." And it¡s free!
it would be folly for educators having suffered inconvenience at best, data loss at worst, to commit their content yet again to a potentially unreliable cloud provider. Alec Couros sees this kind of thing happening more and more in the crystal ball future and suggests that schools and educators would be better off investing in self-hosting using FOSS, free and open source software (Couros, 2010).
As suggested above, the only reliable alternative to Ning is to host your community yourself, or at a trusted institution, where you do your own regular backups, and your content is safe behind a firewall, with a UPS power source in case of power outages, and perhaps some sort of RAID system to keep you running through system crashes.
Explains and illustrates, among other data conservation strategies, how to export posts, pages, and comments from WordPress, and suggests a simple way to download photos, but not sets, tags, or titles from Flickr.