{"id":576,"date":"2004-09-22T22:42:54","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T02:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=576"},"modified":"2004-09-22T22:42:54","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T02:42:54","slug":"surviving-by-accident-print-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Surviving by accident: print your blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>digital information will never survive and remain accessible by accident: it requires ongoing active management. The information and the ability to read it can be lost in a few years. (<a title=\"SAP INFO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sapinfo.net\/index.php4?ACTION=noframe&amp;url=http:\/\/www.sapinfo.net\/public\/en\/index.php4\/article\/Article-3089140c577c931a92\/en\/articleStatisti\">&#8220;Digital Information Will Never Survive by Accident&#8221;<\/a> in SAP INFO)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what can we do individually to ensure that some of the content of this age survives, &#8220;by human accident&#8221;? What if we had a <b>Print your blog day<\/b> once a year when you print out your blog entries for that year on acid-free paper and stored them in the attic. Given that there are millions of blogs, and that these blogs describe other things on the web, we might get a reasonable accidental record as an alternative to centralized archiving projects.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe quote comes from an online interview with Neil Beagire of the British Library. I found this on Ross Scaife&#8217;s <a title=\"The Stoa \u00aa \u201a?\u00faDigital Information Will Never Survive by Accident\u201a??\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoa.org\/index.php?p=29\">The Stoa<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>digital information will never survive and remain accessible by accident: it requires ongoing active management. The information and the ability to read it can be lost in a few years. (&#8220;Digital Information Will Never Survive by Accident&#8221; in SAP INFO) So what can we do individually to ensure that some of the content of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surviving by accident: print your blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markup-and-text-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}