Tag Archives: archiving

Archiving Twitter

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Reverend

Thanks to this post on the OL Daily, and this subsequent toot from Grant Potter reminding me to do it, I spent time converting my recently acquired Twitter archive into markdown. “Why?” you ask. Well, Mattias Ott covers that beautifully: … Continue reading →

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Week 1: Form of an Awesome Personal Media Catalog

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Reverend

I spent the morning playing with Gravity Forms to figure out how to create a form to start cataloging my personal media collection. I can now understand why folks get addicted to creating forms for everything, once you can a … Continue reading →

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Timmy Explores the Wondrous World of Windows 3.1

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Reverend

You begin the game as Timmy, a young boy visiting a crumbling amusement park known as Midway. But Timmy doesn’t see a pathetic locale where everything is falling apart, but rather a world of wonder, with his thoughts appearing in … Continue reading →

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Personal Archiving is an Ongoing Battle Against Web Kipple

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Reverend

While cheering on Tim as he migrated UMW Blogs on Saturday, I discovered that my personal website jimgroom.net was returning a 404. It’s something of an online resume with an RSS feed of recent blog posts I setup using WordPress … Continue reading →

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Reclaiming Vimeo

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Reverend

I’m hoping to catch up on some blogging about stuff I have been doing with ds106.tv over the last month or so, but before that I wanted to quickly share an awesome tool that Chris Lott pointed me to a … Continue reading →

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Katexic, Emphemera, and the Joy of Snail Mail

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Reverend

Just the other day I hot what might be my last Katexic Newsletter. I hope there are more to come after the hiatus because I dig the format, but I can only imagine the time that goes into each of … Continue reading →

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The Long Search for Duke

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Reverend

Back in November of 2010 a much younger bava family visited a dog breeder in Bumpass, Virginia when we were seriously considering getting a Spinone. When we finally did get one eight years later Antonella reminded me of the videos we … Continue reading →

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Bavatumblr Archived and Retired

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Reverend

I had a 3 year run on Tumblr. It lasted between July 2012 and August 2015. I loved Tumblr for the GIFs, the film screenshots, and the digital art more generally. I could and did spend hours just scrolling through … Continue reading →

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Digital Debt, Personal Online Sustainability, and an Archive of One’s Own

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Reverend

This has been a pretty amazing year for travel for me, but not so amazing in terms of blogging all that travel. Alan Levine wrote about that “sad position of back blogging” during his current trip to Australia, and then … Continue reading →

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Securing Planet Miles

Posted on September 17, 2017 by Reverend

It’s been a rainy weekend here in Trento, and the Fall weather is consolidating on this mountain enclave. I spent some time yesterday cuddled up on the couch with my laptop making a plans for securing sites. The larger plan … Continue reading →

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