Kathleen talks about blogs as filing cabinets, in that they can become a fully searchable content management system for research and work, while Jay Cross discusses the advantages of using GMail to search through thousands of messages in a single repository. Similar approaches – with what I assume is similar technology – only the business relationship is different. Kathleen owns the server and the data, while Jay will be "renting for free" from Google.
This made me think about what has recently transpired with Dave Winer closing down his free blog hosting site – a lot of people had to find new places for their blogs. I think that I’ll stick to keeping my e-mail on my own machine, with my own backup, and keep paying to have my site hosted on a server whose location I know. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned.
