I've mothballed my blog
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I've mothballed my blog
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Re: I've mothballed my blog
#2Archived 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?
Re: I've mothballed my blog
#3John, 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.
Re: I've mothballed my blog
#4Archived 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?
It will probably be available here forever: http://web.archive.org/web/20130806152657/http://blog.jgc.or...
Re: I've mothballed my blog
#5Archived 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?
It will probably be available here forever: http://web.archive.org/web/20130806152657/http://blog.jgc.or...
I've seen archive.org content disappear, it's good but not perfect.
Re: I've mothballed my blog
#6John, 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 that's not what I wanted. I just wanted to be free of the responsibility of coming up with new stuff. My life is so full that it was getting neglected and so I decided to prune rather than let it wither.
Re: I've mothballed my blog
#7bm9jYXJyaWVyQGpnYy5vcmc= Is the base64 if you want something copy-pastable.
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Re: I've mothballed my blog
#8Archived 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 in the real world.
Re: I've mothballed my blog
#9Archived 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?
> ... the _why-esque approach ...
It kind of sucks as a user/reader but I can see where people come from.
I at least hope if people have useful content they keep it up and if not hopefully that content exists in a permissive license: http://diveintohtml5.info/
We'll probably see many more people want to disconnect for periods of time in the future on a more frequent basis as users grow older.
Re: I've mothballed my blog
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It will probably be available here forever: http://web.archive.org/web/20130806152657/http://blog.jgc.or...
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.