On this episode of Spark: Your Digital Legacy
- Derek K. Miller wonders if he needs a digital executor (full interview)
- Amber Mac explains Creative Commons
- Catherine tells the story of losing her digital photos when her Powerbook died
- Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com builds a Disaster Preparedness Kit for your digital life. Merlin mentions:
- Mozy.com for online backup
- Plaxo for syncing
- More suggestions from the Spark community
This episode features Creative Commons music and sound effects:
- “Wadidyusay?” by Zap Mama
- “Downtempo Groove” by Neurowaxx
- “Striking Silver” by Derek K. Miller
- “male_Thijs_loud_scream.aiff” by thanvannispen
- “airtone/transmission306/”>transmission306″ by airtone
- “Code Monkey” by Jonathan Coulton
- “Code Monkey (DJ Shamelessly Self-Indulgent Mix)” by Jonathan Coulton, remixed by Cort Stratton
- Music from “Podcast Program No. 41“
- “Meio Ambiente” by NeLaS
- “Parks On Fire (California Burning Mix)” by DJ Rkod
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Wow, I’m on a show with Merlin Mann, Amber Mac, *and* Nora Young. I’m honoured.
@00:13:00 regarding the audience’s unfortunate story about how she lost her photos in the dead powerbook, I have a few comments:
- Give Spinrite a try! I don’t intent to sell you the software but I have heard thousands of stories about how Spinrite fixes dead HD. Get it from grc.com
- if you have MacOS X Leopard installed I encourage you to get an inexpensive external hard drive and use Time Machine to backup
@ Jeepu,
As a new Mac person, I’m excited by the ease of Time Machine.
Hey guys,
I just want to comment on Merlin’s comment about Plaxo.
Come on mann, you are going to suggest a third party source for syncing calendars and contacts?? Heard of LDAP / CALDAV? With you own server. Don’t preach solutions. Please. You are fed by special interest.
In the full version of my interview with Nora, I mentioned that blogging, podcasting, and RSS pioneer Dave Winer of scripting.com got me started on this “digital executor” concept, with his March 2007 blog posts about how to preserve your digital ideas in the long term. Worth reading.