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Saving social media for posterity

by mattdennewitz on 8/6/16, 5:53 PM with 14 comments

  • by Asparagirl on 8/6/16, 8:43 PM

    No mention of ArchiveTeam, which has been slurping down social media into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for years now. I sicced the crawlers on some of the yuckier corners of Twitter just the other day. The bad needs to be preserved along with the good, for context.

    (Join us! http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot)

  • by Smaug123 on 8/7/16, 7:41 AM

    The gratuitous bit of quantum at the end was irritating. I'd have much preferred it if they said something like "Unrelatedly, a recent quantum physics paper used a phrase which is particularly apt in this context:".
  • by Animats on 8/6/16, 6:18 PM

    Even the New York Times now has clickbait. Sad.