That last sentence defining the blockchain is fantastic.
If you hadn't heard of it yet, I attended a conference last year at UCLA entitled Dodging the Memory Hole, which I suspect is right up your alley. I know they're gearing up for another installment later this year at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. I suspect you'll find lots of friends there, and they're still accepting talks. https:/
It seems like such a waste of effort/time for a 23 year old conference to *not* have a permanent Twitter handle. @DNA23UT #edTech
@andreweckford I'll wait to see what the "webmaster" posts later. :) Thanks for the live tweeting you're doing, particularly the linked stream. I know you're most of the way through, but next time you might give http:/
It will also save your entire tweet stream from the conference in a simple format so you can cut and paste your work into a blog post quickly after-the-fact for archiving into the conference website (or your own).
It's one of the best conference tools I've come across for this type of thing.
Instruction manual if you need it: https:/
#conferences #twitter #ITBio #noterlive
In my experience there are so few biologists who are aware of information theory (much less know it well) that the subset of neuroscientists aware of it is minuscule. As a result I can't image that there's a university that would come close to claiming leadership in the field.
I do keep a growing list of researchers working at the intersection of information theory and biology, and even that list is pretty slim though there are researchers like Terry Senjowski or Werner Loewenstein (now deceased) on it. http:/
The NIPS conference might also reveal some researchers, though most are from the neurobiology side: https:/
You might also find some interesting people and papers at: https:/
Another area of overlap in these is in complexity theory where you're likely to find some working with a strong underpinning in information theory.
I've discovered @hypothes_is can be a useful tool for annotating a conference schedule to determine what I'm going to attend. #edtech
@swissmiss I haven't gone through it all personally, but some of the press from this conference is likely to be relevant: https:/
For getting more value in following/interacting with colleagues on Twitter, particularly in relation to conference/topic hashtags, I recommend setting up an IFTTT.com "filter" to add people who tweet about a particular topic(s) to a Twitter list. This can save a LOT of time hunting, searching, and doing this by hand. Details and an example of this can be found at "Some thoughts on creating conference lists, live tweeting and archiving events" [http:/
@rhiaro @csarven I archived a lot of material from the #dtmh2016 conference in Oct here: http:/
Feature request: Archive internal page/post links to Internet Archive on publish/update · Issue #23 · ManageWP/broken-link-checker https:/
I might suggest the following functionality could fit in well with the plugin's general purpose, particularly since the Internet Archive recommends the plugin. It could also help to "close the loop" in the plugin's overall functionality for helping to maintain data integrity and working links for WordPress sites on the web.
**Suggested Functionality**
When one initially publishes (or possibly updates) a post/page, it would be awesome if all of the URLs referenced on the page as well as that of the page itself were pinged for archiving to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at the day and time of their being referenced in the post. (Or perhaps within a day or two of the post so as not to overwhelm Archive.org's servers with multiple subsequent updates for typos/tweaks which invariably happen post-publication.)
With this functionality, then in the future, if (when) resources change, move, etc. one could use the primary functionality in Broken Link Checker not only to restore a link to a close or reasonable copy of the original, but restore it to the _same_ day it was originally referenced.
As I'm sure you're all too aware, this can be very handy as the average web page has a lifespan of 100 days or less. I can see this being very useful to not only the general public, but particularly for bloggers, linkbloggers, journalists, and academics.
**Implementation**
To my knowledge, there are no plugins within the WordPress repository that manage this type of functionality as a standalone plugin, though there is the heavily underused [Post Archival in the Internet Archive](https:/
I'm sure that Archive.org/The Wayback Machine may provide some additional documentation for implementation, though I suspect the code in the above-referenced pluign is a very good examplar. I also recently came across this snippet: https:/
I haven't dug into WordPress core, but I'm guessing some of the functionality for parsing URLs within pages/posts for sending Trackbacks/Pingbacks would have a filter or hook for providing all of the URLs in a post/page necessary for such processing and archiving while the_permalink() or get_permalink() gives the last.
Given the popularity of this spectacular plugin, it could also potentially become one of the largest forces for archiving vast swaths of the internet to the Internet Archive, short of WordPress adding such functionality directly into core.
My new favorite conference tip is to take the Twitter hashtag for the conference and create an IFTTT.com applet to make a Twitter list of everyone talking about the conference on Twitter. It's best to do as soon as you know what the conference hashtag is, but works even a day or two before. Then you'll have a live growing list of everyone who tweeted about the conference which is useful both during the conference as well as keeping up with people after the fact. More details at: <a href="http://boffosocko.com/2016/10/12/twitter-list-for-dtmh2016-participants-dodging-the-memory-hole-2016-saving-online-news/">Twitter List for #DtMH2016 Participants | Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News</a>.
Fantastic John! One other useful resource I put together was a Twitter list of everyone who tweeted about #DtMH2016 just before/during/after the conference. Hopefully it can help keep many of us in touch after-the-fact. #DtMH2016 accounts on Twitter: https:/
Update: Twitter List for #DtMH2016 went from about 30 just before the conference to 158 just two weeks later. http:/