Writing tagged archiving
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Nothing or all
On Craig Mod discussing writing about the benefits of automatically deleting tweets
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Django Ditto and archiving your stuff
About making Django Ditto and whether it’s worth archiving all your ephemeral digital stuff.
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Planning for closure
Maybe we should think about how long we expect our websites to live before we start making them.
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Temporary archiving
Perma.cc’s terms of service include the right to delete anything and close without notice. Not really “the forever business” they promise.
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The undercover quanitifed self
A chunk of Hamish MacGibbon’s father’s life was recorded by the security services, and still readable fifty years later.
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A tiny, tiny fraction
I’ve archived a few GeoCities sites that will otherwise soon be wiped from the web by Yahoo.
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Ugly and neglected fragments
GeoCities is an ugly disorganised mess. But it’s still a huge shame that Yahoo! is closing the whole thing down.