Tag: Archive

Replied to Digitally Literate #213 (digitallyliterate.net)

A Decade of Music Is Lost on Your iPod. These Are The Deleted Years. Now Let Us Praise Them.

I love listening to new music, and crafting playlists for a variety of purposes. In fact, in some of my online bios, I indicate that I’m an “award winning online DJ.” Most people give this an odd look, and then move on. This is a reference to the playlists that I created and shared on 8tracks…many of which have gone gold. 

Dave Holmes in Esquire laments the “deleted” decade of music that occurred as we moved from compact discs to streaming services. Holmes even shares a list of the greatest hits from this period.

This story is a great analogy of the challenges we have as a society when our sources of information move from print to pixel. Preservation of history becomes a challenge when the process of printing no longer occurs.

I found Dave Holmes’ piece an intriguing read as my life changed during that time so I was left wondering the place of technology compared to different focuses. It made me think about assemblages and the way in which we can focus on a particular element at the detriment of the wider picture. I had never heard of 8Track before either.
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Listened The Life and Death of the Blog from bavatuesdays

On the heels of a transatlantic journey I sat down with Tim Owens to discuss the fate of academic blogging in the wake of Harvard University’s  announcement of their shuttering their blo…

This was a fascinating podcast that covered so many aspects. Whether it be the future of blogging, the notion of domains or the question of backing up and archiving. Interestingly, it also explained why Reclaim is different to other providers. It is another one of those crossovers where it is hard to differentiate between #DoOO and differentiation.
Replied to Reply to Brad Enslen about Blogrolls in WordPress by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (BoffoSocko)

I’ve written up a bunch of details on how and what I did (as well as why), so hopefully it’ll give you a solid start including some custom code snippets and reasonably explicit directions to make some small improvements for those that may be a bit code-averse. Hint: I changed it from being a sidebar widget to making it a full page. Let us know if you need help making some of the small code related changes to get yourself sorted.

I have been wondering about your following page / blogroll lately. I looked into Colin Walker’s plugin, but really did not want to rewrite all my links.

I have also been looking into archive page templates and assume that just as an archive can be incorporated into a widget or within a template, you have done the same thing with your ‘blogroll’, therefore when you add somebody new (seemingly weekly, if not daily) then your page automatically updates?

Replied to Freeing Myself from Facebook by Jonathan LaCourJonathan LaCour (cleverdevil)

Ever since my discovery of the IndieWeb movement, I’ve wanted to free myself from Facebook (and Instagram) and their brand of surveillance capitalism. I want to own my own data, and be in control of how it is shared, and I don’t want it to be used for advertising.

Jonathon, there are many posts out there arguing to get off Facebook or clean up your data, however my question has always been what to do with the data. I really like Martin Hawksey’s work associated with archiving Twitter, but I have never really come upon any process for bringing Facebook content into my own domain. I am going to explore this, even if to keep a private archive. Thanks you.