The main point of this post is to argue that using centralized services is a bad idea. Hence, for example, a bug in the Google search service cause widespread disruption. In the same vein, depending on a centralzied service such as OurMedia (or, as I have commented recently, Flickr) can for the same reason be a bad idea. "It'll be a central store of data, which is great until there's some kind of funding problem and the whole thing has to be dismantled." Right. Which is why I'm much more interested in what ought to be phase two of OurMedia - the release of the code to everyone, so that we can not just one but any number of such sites. A distributed network. Until then, I won't rest easy either. "The future, at least for me, is in distributed networks with front ends that aggregate everything together." Exactly.
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