Have you experienced "data lock-in"?

Posted on behalf of Martin de Saulles:

Have you experienced data lock-in issues with any Web services?

I am currently writing an article on the issues of data lock-in with Web services such as blogs, wikis, social networking, content management and collaborative tools. I am interested in conducting some short interviews (you can choose to remain anonymous) with anyone who has experienced issues (either at a personal or work level or both) with getting their data out of such services for either transferring to a different service, for back-up purposes or because you wanted to close your account with the service down.

The interview would only be a few questions and could be done by email or telephone - whatever suits you.

Thanks in advance.

Martin De Saulles
Senior Lecturer
University of Brighton, UK
mrd@brighton.ac.uk

RSS, Blogs and Wikis - additional date and venue

The workshop on RSS, Blogs and Wikis being run on 27th April, 10th May and 17th May are now fully booked but the event is being re-run in Newcastle on Wednesday, 11th July 2007. Details and a booking form can be found on the UKeiG web site, or contact Christine Baker for further details on Tel & Fax: +44 (0)1969 625751, email: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

New discussion list for UK bloggers

"LIS-BLOGGERS is a new JISCmail list for UK librarians and information professionals who create, edit or manage blogs for current awareness or user education. It aims to be a discussion forum for the growing number of information professionals who are developing innovative services using blogs and other Web 2.0 technologies."

You can join the list via http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/LIS-BLOGGERS.html