Archiving of Online Content
1. Our common life (not in electronic space) ir passing by insensibly.
2. Our life on internet is just passing by.
3. What am I talking about? The question is about archiving of online content. Do you save constantly your comments, your tweets, your wall’s posts, your blog’s posts which you write unnumebered times every day? What about uploaded photos, audio and video files?
4. I’m sure you know, that different internet services are suspectable to dissapear one day. Even Twitter, which still is growing and is one of the most popular social networks today, does not allow to find your earlier tweets, especially those, which are behind the curtain of 3000.
5. So what? Will you have something to leave for your children in the future, talking about the history of your family, recalling the moments of growing kids, remembering your habits and hobbies? Everything is stored on the web nowadays. Do you have any video tapes with original video, which you uploaded for the web the passed few years? For example there was a service called “Twittergram” some time ago. Now it’s gone with all links to the files in its server.
6. It is impossible to archive everything you leave on the net. There is a lot of stuff, and this job requires quite much time! The other thing, that not all services are friendly for saving content, unless you order special subsriptions etc. It won’t be easy just to give passwords for your grandchildren for saving photos. Some services are quite large and not flexible for browsing of your own content! Just do not forget this.
7. All these ideas about online content mean simple thing: everything, what you are doing every minute online, is worth just for the moment of the blink. It ruins in speed of geometrical progression with every next day.
8. The process of sharing is more important than content in itself. If you still differentiate which material is really important for you, try to make a copy. The best advice: make a harware copy. If you want to save a text, make a paper copy. If you want to save photos, make a photo copy. If you want to save video, record it to the tape. And so on.
9. Life on the internet just passes by. It does not have memories or as we call “material”. It has only fleeting amounts of content.
Interesting interpretation of the problem discussed in Robert Scoble’s article “Our online lives slowly leak away”.
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