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Who uses, recommends or left Crashplan, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Sociologist at Duke University who writes about markets and exchange, and about plain-text tools for social science.
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After a few failed attempts at finding a good automatic offsite backup solution I recently began using Crashplan to mirror my wife's office computer on mine, and vice versa. It seems to be working out pretty well.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: an essay-length account of his research and writing toolchain.

2010-10-17·usesthis.com ↗

Writer, editor and coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
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I keep Crashplan installed as an extra level of backup.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview, given while she was communications director at Typekit.

2012-03-19·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.