"Saving the First Draft of History:
When news sites suddenly shut down and former URLs are sold to the highest bidder, saving a publisher's archive becomes a time-consuming and rigorous full-time job in the digital age."
nice piece featuring @mark of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine!
https://niemanreports.org/articles/saving-the-first-draft-of-history/
It's not just the websites. As local media buildings are sold off by the hedge fund looters and any remaining staff sent home to work remotely, physical records -- clip files, photos, film negatives -- often are thrown into the trash.
“Every time I publish a story I’m particularly proud of, I immediately PDF it just knowing how quickly things change.”
I need to adopt a similar process. Depending on the content and context I use a mix of Evernote, OneNote and my personal WordPress website. Perhaps I need to consider static .txt files as well.
MA
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