clouds (i still fall through them)

Much has been said about the information cloud and the virtues of it, the threats of it. Accessible information from everywhere, cloud computing tools accessible through everywhere; but with privacy concerns and also security concerns.

So far as users of up-to-date technologies, except for privacy concerns and hacking into one’s account, we have not been exposed much to this: what happens if the “cloud’s” servers get erased. Well, obviously what happens is thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of users lose data stored on these could servers. All of a sudden the cloud doesn’t hold us up in the air any more and we all fall down.

Seems to have happened to Digg following the revamp of the site. Once I had more than 300 Diggs, all what to me has been a valuable storage place for articles I might need to refer to. As of today, I’m down to 4. RIP precious Diggs from the past.

How much time until this happens to other clouds?