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		<title>Public dropbox without the lock-in</title>
		<dateCreated>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:40:05 GMT</dateCreated>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:40:05 GMT" ctSaves="8" flPreview="false" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="978" text="Public dropbox without the lock-in" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/25/publicDropboxWithoutTheLoc.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.42" versionServer="0.42" whenLastSave="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:26:25 GMT">
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:33:16 GMT" pgfnum="6442" text="First a few necessary recitals:"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:33:24 GMT" pgfnum="6443" text="1. Dropbox is very useful."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:33:28 GMT" pgfnum="6444" text="2. I pay $99 a year for the upgrade."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:33:36 GMT" pgfnum="6445" text="3. I use the Public folder to host all kinds of stuff. It neatly solves a problem that's been around forever -- how to quickly and easily put up small files that provide connective glue for the net. I use it for reading lists, my elements of the world outline, default configuration files for software I maintain. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:35:46 GMT" pgfnum="6446" text="Now there's a problem with using the public folder this way. Lock-in. Consider that this is the URL of a file in my public folder."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:36:27 GMT" pgfnum="6447" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1006496/worldOutline/defaultRootOutline.opml&quot;&gt;http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1006496/worldOutline/defaultRootOutline.opml&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:36:28 GMT" pgfnum="6448" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/04/25/paddles.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;125&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named paddles.jpg&quot;&gt;What if Dropbox were to go away, or change the terms of use to prevent me from doing this. I'd be S.O.L. because I'd spread these URLs all over the place. I can't redirect them because I don't own dl.dropbox.com."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:37:50 GMT" pgfnum="6449" text="I've been worried about this, so yesterday I set up an Amazon S3 bucket to host a mirror of my public dropbox. So I can use this new URL:"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:38:59 GMT" pgfnum="6450" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://dropbox.scripting.com/dave/worldOutline/defaultRootOutline.opml&quot;&gt;http://dropbox.scripting.com/dave/worldOutline/defaultRootOutline.opml&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:39:29 GMT" pgfnum="6451" text="Now I can move it anywhere I want, whenever I want, yet still have the convenience of Dropbox. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:39:57 GMT" pgfnum="6452" text="Win-win! :-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:42:56 GMT" pgfnum="6453" text="PS: How do I do it? It's a feature of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://editor.opml.org/&quot;&gt;OPML Editor&lt;/a&gt;. Click this &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmleditor/prefs?title=S3%20folder%20synch&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; with it running on your machine. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/04/25/s3foldersynch.gif&quot;&gt;Screen shot&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
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