What is John Graham-Cumming?
I've mothballed my blog
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#12What is John Graham-Cumming?
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#13Archived content is still available through Google, but some images likely won't load. Example: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/long-range-wifi-antenna-from-ill... Question for discussion: it is well within John's rights to do as he wishes with his online property, but what are everyone's thoughts on the _why-esque approach of simply pulling all of one's "shared digital life" off the Internet?
I haven't done anything _why like. There's no drama or mystery. My blog content is still there. I deliberately put up a 'so long and thanks for all the fish' message on jgc.org because I knew that some people would start to wonder if I just stopped blogging and tweeting. TBH I'm a bit disappointed this on high up on HN. There's no exciting news here. I'm busy doing other stuff, like working at CloudFlare and existing…
I think the reason I interpreted this a bit more "heavily" than you may have intended it is simply because of the lack of links to get to existing content on the site.
That, combined with the "signing off" nature of the message and that the site's nav links no longer resolve made it feel like the fact that old content could be accessed at all might have been an accident.
But it's great to know that you'll be keeping it all up there; your blog's content is an extremely valuable resource! Thank you for spending the time and energy on it over the years.
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#14John, If you're reading this, please reconsider and at least keep the pages up. Just stop adding to them. There's a wealth of good stuff in there and it's painful to see a hole in the web like this. Whatever you chose, thank you very much for all your contributions, it's been a pleasure.
All the blog pages are still there. I haven't taken it down. By mothballing I mean: I've stopped updating, I've disabled further comments and the front page has just one story on it, but it's all there and indexed. I don't intend to delete stuff from the Internet as I know there are many people who read the old stuff I wrote (thousands of page views per day). If anything has broken I would like to know about it as th…
I'm grateful that you're leaving the stuff up. I've learned a lot from you over the years. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't done anything _why like. There's no drama or mystery. My blog content is still there. I deliberately put up a 'so long and thanks for all the fish' message on jgc.org because I knew that some people would start to wonder if I just stopped blogging and tweeting. TBH I'm a bit disappointed this on high up on HN. There's no exciting news here. I'm busy doing other stuff, like working at CloudFlare and existing…
I think the reason I interpreted this a bit more "heavily" than you may have intended it is simply because of the lack of links to get to existing content on the site. That, combined with the "signing off" nature of the message and that the site's nav links no longer resolve made it feel like the fact that old content could be accessed at all might have been an accident. But it's great to know that you'll be keeping…
Have changed Blogger settings so that blog.jgc.org shows multiple posts making it more obvious that it's all still there.
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#16That's a shame, I can recall some great posts there, particularly the "Climategate" ones that actually investigated tech aspects of the story no proper journalist would bother with.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've seen archive.org content disappear, it's good but not perfect.
I think they work off of current robots.txt so if you purchase a domain name update the robots.txt to not allow archive.org they delete the entire history. Which sucks in an archival perspective.
Yeah, they really ought to work from the version of robots.txt archived along with a given snapshot. If the legal owner of the content wants it taken down, they can submit an explicit request for that.
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#18Love the filename.
+++ ATH
Ah the good old days.
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#19That's a shame, I can recall some great posts there, particularly the "Climategate" ones that actually investigated tech aspects of the story no proper journalist would bother with.
The posts are all still there.
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#20Poster here, didnt mean any disrespect by sharing this.
I think it shows a lot of strengh and courage doing this. I think most of us will have a moment in our life where we need to experience something new, something else and need more time. Time is so precious.
For me, it is just comforting knowing that it is possible to get out of that loop and that I am not the only one with that pressure.