More on Preserving Blogs
I just wanted to mention a couple of things in relation to preserving blogs. First, I wanted to thank Marty Duren, formerly of the influential Baptist blog SBCOutpost. Marty now blogs at ie:missional (I’m not sure what ie stands for, but I hope he’s not endorsing the web browser that dare not name it’s name.) Marty was taking down his SBCOutpost blog, and he graciously provided me with a full digital copy of the blog. I like to think of it as SBCOutpost 2.0, because Marty used to have a Blogger blog before he was converted to WordPress. SBCOutpost is now at version 3.0 as a collabroblog.
Second, I think I am getting closer to an answer on how to grab blogs and store them in a way that will ensure that their arrangement remains intact. I also think that I have a solution for how to ensure that various iterations are distinctly recorded. In other words, I believe that I will be able to do for blogs what the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine does for regular sites. Better yet, I believe I can do it with entirely free software. I also think that this solution can be used for other web resources. We will see how it turns out, but at this point I have reason to be very hopeful. At this point, I am more concerned with preservation than access. I need to preserve all these “wet blogs” before they dry up.
Jason-
Thanks for the kind words and even more for devising a way to archive the old SBC Outpost so I didn’t have to :^)
As for ie:missional–it’s kind of a play (certainly not an endorsement of a non-Firefox browser). If you take the words of the description and add it all together, you get this:
“teaching. glocalizing. living. serving. repenting. incarnating. loving. repeating. i.e., missional”
Anyway, it made perfect sense to me. Now you know what Sonya has to deal with…
Marty Duren
July 3, 2007 at 9:42 am
Marty,
Not a problem. God has graciously allowed me to work at preserving Baptist cultural resources. I’m just thankful he lets me do it. Being able to serve Southern Baptists daily is a joy.
On the ie, I thought that’s what you might be doing, but I just wasn’t sure.
–jf
Jason
July 3, 2007 at 1:58 pm
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