Here’s an interesting discussion about cloud computing.  Be sure and click through to the article on the website (From Desktop to the Digital Cloud) and read through the interesting and thoughtful comments there. 

I’ve moved a lot of my files out on the cloud, but I’m not ready to move everything out to the cloud.  I have concerns about security and ownership of the files, but the thing that concerns me the most about cloud computing is getting a consistent, reliable, and fast internet connection.  The college where I teach is committed to wifi and is constantly upgrading and expanding its wifi network, even still I have yet to achieve a reliable, consistent wifi connection when I am on campus, even when I’m standing right next to a wifi router.  For the upcoming semester, I am hoping to work from the cloud, but I’ll have all my files backed up on my thumb drive….just_in_case…

Listen to Podcast: WBUR_111756439.mp3

On Point with Tom Ashbrook Podcast / Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:40:16 = GMT

You may also enjoy the New York Times Article, Lost in the Cloud by Jonathan Zittrain (one of the participants on this podcast).