Who remembers this? Well, now my web site is on version 4.
Outlining my thought process in moving back to Wordpress.
Digital archiving is something that I've become increasingly concerned with over the years, and moving my web site back to running on Wordpress is just another step in that.
In the course of writing that entry, I was intrigued by the prospect of preservation of the information that everybody is dumping into social networking web sites these days. Twitter already archive tweets to the LoC, but I think there's room for more than just public information in archives.
In a Speaker for the Dead sort of thing, what if privacy were to be thrown away after the death of the subject? The dead have no need for privacy (to a point..), so what if there were some site that can act like a life archive? On the death of a user, their personal data could be released into a public archive- combined with a wiki-like system, you could build a comprehensive archive of people's lives which can automatically populate itself with basic information.
Anyway, I found that line of thought to be interesting, although I suspect others will disagree with my assessment of the importance of privacy for the dead. Discuss!
Outlining my thought process in moving back to Wordpress.
Digital archiving is something that I've become increasingly concerned with over the years, and moving my web site back to running on Wordpress is just another step in that.
In the course of writing that entry, I was intrigued by the prospect of preservation of the information that everybody is dumping into social networking web sites these days. Twitter already archive tweets to the LoC, but I think there's room for more than just public information in archives.
In a Speaker for the Dead sort of thing, what if privacy were to be thrown away after the death of the subject? The dead have no need for privacy (to a point..), so what if there were some site that can act like a life archive? On the death of a user, their personal data could be released into a public archive- combined with a wiki-like system, you could build a comprehensive archive of people's lives which can automatically populate itself with basic information.
Anyway, I found that line of thought to be interesting, although I suspect others will disagree with my assessment of the importance of privacy for the dead. Discuss!