Tuesday, May 11, 2010

CPL 2.0 Week 8: Google Docs

Google Docs: Seems to work OK; I did have an error message withing a few minutes of uploading and editing my file, but refreshing the page seemed to fix it.

I will continue to use traditional word processing programs. The main issues would be the potential of needing to access my document at a time when the Google Docs site is down or having problems; also, issues of security. Although I don't have any "top-secret" documents per se, I would still be concerned if my files could be accessed or changed or deleted by mischief makers. If banks and government websites are vulnerable to hacking (as has happened in the past), Google cannot be totally secure either.

After the Google books settlement, one also wonders how long it would be before Google "owned" the rights to everybody's personal documents and chose what to do with them without prior warning or express permission...

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