History, our future - Preoccupations
A superb post by David that ties together multiple strands of personal digital preservation through homesteading instead of sharecropping.
A superb post by David that ties together multiple strands of personal digital preservation through homesteading instead of sharecropping.
I wish I had a teacher like David when I was in school.
URLs, permalinks, archives … preservation. It all matters so very much.
This is the stuff James Bond stories are made of. Except in this case, the fortress exists to store data rather than criminal masterminds.
This looks like it could be a handy tool for backing up Flickr photos.
Here lies what we could salvage from the ashes of GeoCities.
A python script from Dan Benjamin to help you do your bit in battling the datapocalypse.
Paul Mison shares his thoughts on moving towards a decentralised web of services rather than silos of data. "Now I'm wondering: is there a space for a piece of user-installable software, like Movable Type or Wordpress, that aggregates their data from sites across the web, and then presents it as a site? If there is, is it even possible to write it in a way that anyone who couldn't have written it themselves can even use it?"
Archive your Twitter updates with this PHP script.
This could prove to be very useful in the event of future Pownce/Jaiku implosions.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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