archived weblogs
Here is a problem I've encountered with trying to save weblogs from the old days.This one: https://web.archive.org/web/20130420210206/http://violentdeer.blogspot.com/
is now only available by web archive (wayback machine). Somehow the scammers have taken the URL, so that when you try to go to violentdeer.blogspot.com, you get spam. When you find it on the wayback machine, you get what it was: a very interesting weblog set up for and by international students.
Another one, http://eap2walmart.blogspot.com, has a project I'm very proud of, where students literally explored both sides of the issue of a new Walmart appearing between Carbondale and Murphysboro (nothing new about it these days, I'm sure). It was an excellent project and deserves to be saved.
But I can't find any log-in information - no email, no password, no nothing. It too will probably be scooped up by the spammers if the site goes dead as Google promises - nobody logs in, nobody uses it, etc. I am still looking for email and login for this one. I don't want it to die.
If it does, thank God for the Wayback Archive.
Labels: cesl, internet, weblogs, writing
posted by tom @ 2:52 PM
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