Just thoughts …

Category: TG@CF

An archive of the posts on the original Thought grazing blog, created to support the Social Media Cafe established at Cardiff University in 2009, and held in various venues – with the quality of the discourse being more important than the quality of the coffee! [I’ve tried to attribute authorship of posts wherever possible.]

  • Fancy a coffee and a chat?

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    Thanks for the feedback from Meet-o-matic. From the responses so far it looks like the morning of Thursday 3rd October is a good fit; so let’s go for that day. I suggest we go from 11:00am up to lunchtime, so I’ll be in the Costa Coffee in Park Place, Cardiff from then.

    Looking forward to seeing all who are interested in chatting about using Dropbox or not) – thanks Simon for the recent post, iOS7 (maybe), MOOC’s (possibly), FutureLearn (almost certainly) and Digidol (probably). All that and more. If you have an idea of something you’d like to chat about – just get in touch using the form on this page.

  • Syncing in a Torrent

    Syncing in a Torrent

    I’m ditching Dropbox… Cancelling my Google Drive subscription… I’m syncing with torrents, now…

    When I bought my first laptop it seemed a little daring to be buying a machine with no floppy disk drive (this was twelve years ago…) But it had a CD burner, so I’d be alright… Then USB drives became the defacto way to shift files around.

    Now it’s Dropbox, and the many similar services that let you throw your files up into the cloud and access them from any of your devices, or any web browser…

    But… there have always been a couple of niggles… safety and security. Can you trust the service you use not to let your files leak into the wild… and can you be sure that your files will be there tomorrow? (more…)