I'd expect a few more URL shortners to drop off the tree; I had used tr.im when it first came out (liked the stats it kept) and cannot even remember why I stopped (am going now to see what URLs I may have routed through here.

Their goodbye message was rather whiny:

"We regret that it came to this, but all of our efforts to avoid it failed.
No business we approached wanted to purchase tr.im for even a minor amount.

There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening -- users won't pay for it -- and we just can't justify further development since Twitter has all but annointed bit.ly the market winner. There is simply no point for us to continue operating tr.im, and pay for its upkeep."

And it serves now as a bitter lesson to be more vigilant. Whats a crock is that while they are redirecting links til end of the year (my how gracious), but if you had an account you can log in to reclaim the lnks they are taking down.

Backing things up in multiple ways never makes sense til you need it ;-) In addition to what you list, other things I do/use are:

* I've ordered backups of my flickr images on DVD (I think Qoop does that now)
* I am using Lifestreambackup to do incremental backups of Facebook (no idea why), flickr, delicious, twitter, etc. Its just another layer. I do always want my own local copies.

And I hope you have an offsite storage location for the backup backup ;-)