Joey Lo

kim jokes that the internet is my 'one true love'. :P - kk+

My hubby may have made similar comments about me, but he got me a tshirt that says "Wargame Widow: Time after time after time." - MiniMage LightBlueRanger

Yeah my wife is a WoW Widow and the iPhone doesn't help.... - Andy Lewandowski

I'm a wow widow to my wife, and I recently started up a relationship with my iphone, so we're even :) - Nick

my girlfriend calls my iPhone my other girlfriend - Brad Davis Seal

In the early days of the PC, didn't we hear complaints from Computer Widows. (A back formation from football widows). Plus ça change... - Michael Hussein Markman

Tanya, what happens if the external drive breaks down? Do you back that up too? - Steve Allen via Alert Thingy

I'm buying my first 1 terabyte external hard drive this week :) can't wait for all that extra legroom. - Brooklyn Art Project

why dont you live on the edge? - Allen Stern

Webroot, source for my anti-virus/anti-spyware tools, is now promoting remote backup services.(Jeremiah, they haven't offered to pay me to use their service yet, though!) - dennis d. mcdonald

when I did tech support, my friend and coworker Sam's first question used to be 'did you restore from your latest backup?' And that was in 1995! - ∵JPGlockner∴

I don't worry about using a external harddrive, you can us HP upline, and it works great. (http://upline.com) - Aaron Myers

I use http://www.carbonite.com for continuous backup into the cloud. Ninety bucks gives me peace of mind that if my house is ever smote off the face of the earth, my data lives on. - Rob Clark

$90/year or lifetime? - Aaron Myers

I use Amazon S3, via http://www.jungledisk.com/ - Andrew Terry

I let SuperDuper! make a bootable clone of my HDD to an external drive every night. It's a great program. - Tom Harrison

I used to do Jungledisk, but it got too expensive (>500GB total). My boss was kind of enough to let me stick a Drobo at the office, so now I just upload to that over the VPN for offsite backup. Plus I mirror all my local drives. - Eric

Apple Time Machine Backup in the cloud? Anybody offer this? - David Henderson via twhirl

I've backed up to the cloud - Nick O'Neill

Backup is a never-ending task. Do you guys have an automated schedule even for personal data? - Winston Teo

I just got a new Drobo with 4Tb for local and also use JungleDisk and S3 to back up important stuff to the cloud in case of fire, etc - Jimmy Gardner

... and don't forget the sunscreen either... Oh, yes. And remember to floss. - Michael Hussein Markman

How timely. I usually back up my data every Sunday, but I forgot to do it today because I was rushing to dinner. Backing up as I write this. - Joey Lo

I do it almost daily to S3 using jungledisk, so awesome and cheap. - Jim Kukral via twhirl

I have a 1TB Time Capsule for my iMac and MacBook, and a 500GB external HD for my MacBook Pro. My most important docs are also on iDisk. - Marc Dierens

I use Acronos True Image to do a full drive image backup of all of the drives in my desktops and laptop. At the moment, these drive images all fit on one 1TB external drive. I then duplicate the backup sets onto a 2nd 1TB drive and take it off site. I use MS sync toy to mirror important data and photos between two machines which acts as my interim backup between monthly drive images. This has workes very well for me and saved my butt one time when Corp IT F#$% my machine at work. - Jeff P. Henderson

Ever though of using an Online Backup service. Shameless plug www.servosity.com - Damien Stevens

Amazon s3 via jungledisk - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

Rob: try again. Blogging still is barely mainstream and it's been out for 10 years now. Facebook just got to 110 million users. How many people in the world are there? Six billion? Funny how we consider things "mainstream." - Robert Scoble

Well, if 110 million users isn't "mainstream", then yes, I will change my estimates :) I think twitter (or microblogging) will go mainstream soon because it is so simple, and IM-like. "Real" blogging requires too much work and thought, and that is probably why it took so long. That and the tools have not been around for the full 10 years. Not sure when things like LiveJournal and WordPress really came about. - Rob Diana

LiveJournal was out in late 90s, I remember seeing it 2001 and I'm sure I wasn't early. WordPress came out shortly after that. Probably around 2003. Yeah, microblogging will probably be more popular than regular blogging. I'd agree with that, but it has a long way to go. Twitter has, what, a million or two users, not all of whom are active? - Robert Scoble

What's amazing is it seems that you guys beat the mainstream by days, not hours- for example, Andreesen/Facebook - Dino

LiveJournal, early 1990s? Try 1999, as late 1990s as it gets. ;o) - Fraser Smith

Sorry, I meant early 2000's. I'll fix that. - Robert Scoble

you are talking about heads down researchers from the nihs hp though robert :-p - mike "glemak" dunn

LiveJournal is huge in Russia, apparently. And the biggest search engine there is something called Yonex (useless info 4 the day alert) - john conroy

For me, I've gotten used to think in terms of mainstream for techies and mainstream for the general public. - Joey Lo

@Rob Diana - You're wrong - FriendFeed does not need more filtering to become mainstream. Mainstream users don't filter, they expect it to work and that's it. You're also wrong about FriendFeed becoming mainstream anytime soon. People don't use many services, therefore FF is useless for them. Not even blogging is mainstream, and probably won't ever at a scale like Facebook. Most people haven't got interesting things to tell. - sebmos

I still find it amazing that people continue with Twitter (myself included) despite it's hilariously fragile state. - Jonathan Beckett

I'm no techie, compared to some of the folks around FF anyway. I know "just enough to be dangerous," according to my wife's IT dept. But I rely on posts from folks like Scoble et al. to expand my knowledge of the tech world. FF is invaluable for that, but even though I signed up for it months ago, I didn't really start using it until the last 4-6 weeks. I think new sites and apps take a little getting used to, esp. if you're not really "out there" in terms of knowledge and know-how. - steplow is Steve

steplow - like your comment, very reality based :) - mike "glemak" dunn

Interesting tweet Scoble. I wish I could get unlimited data here in Canada so I could Qik. - Granteezy

This says more about the researchers being out of touch than it does about social media. - Sam Pullara

@robertscoble - what you say about mainstream is exactly how I've tried making the point before that not only are services like Facebook reaching less than 10% of active Internet users, but most the world still needs to get connected! when people talk about Twitter going mainstream I want to scream "learn your orders of magnitude" - Julian Baldwin

I use my father and brother as 'touchstones' for mainstream. My dad, at 71 is an attorney who uses the computer for work only, doesn't regularly use email for personal reasons (but does for work) and can use the internet (he tracked down my twitter!) but doesn't see the need for it. My brother, at 44 is a judge who majored in CS & Psych in undergrad. He's a computer geek, but more into gaming than SocMed. They keep me from buying into the 'echo chamber' - yes, we are that far ahead. - Lucretia Pruitt

The Fins sold us the phones. So maybe we're not that far ahead. :-) - Dave Plumber Winer

I agree with Scoble,blogs, twitter, friendfeed, plurks won't be mainstream for a while. There is actual nothing in them that would give people a reason to hop on them in droves. E-mail yes, IM yes, static webpages, forums yes. And that's all. - Roland Hesz

I asked a bunch of people I work with regularly about Friendfeed and 1 person knew what it was. I work in the web industry. Maybe I was asking the wrong people. - Kate

Our focus is different. I don't know jack about sustainable architecture, for instance, but my friends who don't give a damn about blogs are all about green energy, sustainable city planning, etc. That's something that a lot of people on FriendFeed don't understand or care about. "Ahead" is a relative term. My dad is on FriendFeed, but he just sees it as another way to follow what I'm doing. My mom barely knows how to use e-mail, but she knows all about advances in wound care that I don't understand, but will be increasingly important as the population gets older and increasingly diabetic. Different strokes for different folks. - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy

I like what Steve Lynch replied, re. his friends/other people having a different focus, especially the bit re. his friends "who don't give a damn about blogs are all about green energy, sustainable city planning, etc. That's something that a lot of people on FriendFeed don't understand or care about. 'Ahead' is a relative term." I see that in my own communities of interest, where people are comfortable with forums (ew!), have made tentative forays into FB, but don't get blogs, much less Twitter, FF, etc. - Yule Heibel

@steve - that's a well stated point..I need to spend more time thinking about my understanding of mainstream and how it applies to sub-populations - Julian Baldwin

This discussion is a bit self-congratulatory, wouldn't you say? I would frame it a different way: how out of touch with the mainstream are we? The answer, of course, is very much so. Another question: are we out here on the cutting edge or just hunting snipe? - Juan Aguilar

I doubt Twitter will ever go "mainstream" if we define mainstream as a majority of the people who are online via computers or cellphones. Blogs, wikis, RSS, none of that is mainstream. Browsing, email, SMS...those are mainstream. - wrecks

now that it is mentioned, SMS reached mainstream pretty quick. - Ruben Llibre

@Jua Aguilar Hunting snipe. It's not in any way a cutting edge. It's just a way to pass time. - Roland Hesz

@wrecks: Good point. Maybe it would be better to talk about functionality rather than platforms, then. I'd say that social networking and IM are mainstream. I think real-time video on cellphones (for example) could go mainstream in a few years, but it wouldn't necessarily mean that "Qik" goes mainstream. I think wiki-like functionality will become more common... because it is very convenient. I think the functionality of a lot of Web 2.0 apps will be incorporated into mainstream devices, which is how it will become mainstream.... Torrents and Mp3 sharing was once for tech-heads only.... - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy

Lots a of great points, regarding Robert's original post I think that online video is finally taking off in a big way thanks to YouTube and that speaks more to the mainstream than any of the social applications we use to create and share content and conversation. Live mobile video broadcasting is still relatively new but video chat with Skype seems to be reaching a mainstream audience thanks to Oprah using it on her show and recent New Earth web casts. How much does the generation gap play into this? - Larry Kless