Tag Archives: archive

The Sisyphean Labor of Link Love

Posted on September 16, 2021 by Reverend

I woke up this morning to a Twitter exchange between Alan Levine and Ken Bauer about creating a plugin that points dead links on a blog to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: I might need a WordPress plugin than converts … Continue reading →

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Organizational Linkrot

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Reverend

I’ve been going through the paces of trying to keep the bava in relatively good shape, and one of the things I forgot was a few random audio and video files that were outside the standard WPMS blogs.dir upload folder. … Continue reading →

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What Was Known

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Reverend

I have been working away at some of my end of the year archiving projects, and one that has been taking more time then I planned has been my various attempts to migrate and archive Known to WordPress. I started … Continue reading →

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Archiving OpenVA

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Reverend

I finally got around to converting some dormant WordPress sites to straight-up HTML. This was inspired by similar efforts by folks like Adam Croom and Keegan Long-Wheeler who put their sites on a web diet of sorts.  I decided to … Continue reading →

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Steal from Work

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Reverend

I recently listened to Jason Scott‘s “Now and Then, Here and There” talk for the Eleventh Hope (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference. Jason is a free-range archivist working at the Internet Archive. His work with browser-based software emulation over the last few years … Continue reading →

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Digital Dioramas

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Reverend

On Wednesday I was able to tune into the Decentralized Web Summit for a couple of hours thanks to the live stream. The event was hosted in the web’s chapel or, the Internet Archive. The video stream has all been archived, and … Continue reading →

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Archiving My Digital Past

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Reverend

Finally started project I’ve been putting off for too long, organizing all my archvied files across 5 or 6 computers I’ve had last 10 years. — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) June 6, 2016 A few nights ago I finally bit the … Continue reading →

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Importing and Archiving Tumblr Images on WordPress

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Reverend

I’ve been in web host archiving hell as of late. There is close to nine years of internet kipple on my hosting account and it is starting to fill me with a terrible sense of dread.  I’ve been deleting old … Continue reading →

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Domain of One’s Own as Legacy Archival Project

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Reverend

In the seven years I have been at UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies we’ve done a fair bit of experimentation. Most of that has been centered around commodity web hosting, domains, and one-click install open source applications. That … Continue reading →

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This Week in ds106: Archiving and the Digital

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Reverend

Last night I went on roughly an hour and fifteen minute rant during this #ds106 session about archiving and the digital. It was all over the place, covering everything from Wikipedia to Tupac to the Numa Numa Guy to Star … Continue reading →

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