ArchiveTeam.org steps up as your Public Data Watchdog
In response to the recent unceremonious shuttering of tens of thousands of AOL blogs, Jason Scott — ASCII text files archivist, documentary filmmaker of the CC-licensed BBS Documentary, and writer of recent counter-technocultural foul-mouthed gems like Datapocalypso! and FUCK THE CLOUD — is striking up a kind of internet viligante, do-gooders league called Archive Team, which will cooperate, wiki-style, to save the sum total of cultural data on commonly used public blog servers and website shingles.
Scott himself has already started the ball rolling, by personally saving (and making available to the original owners) 70 gigabytes of podcast data that was recently end-of-lifed by ailing hosting site, podango.com.
[Submitted by The Laroquod Experiment.]
