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Someone (@CSMoskell ?) at the @Hypothes_is conference on social annotation earlier today suggested using well annotated public web pages as examples could be helpful for adoption.

Here's an excellent project to use: https://framework.thoughtvectors.net/about/

 

It seems like a good day to highlight this short video presentation I made last year at an academic conference and posted to my own website:
"A Twitter of Our Own" https://boffosocko.com/2021/04/26/a-twitter-of-our-own-at-oerxdomains-2021-conference/

 

I can see an interesting use case for Noterlive.com at an online Twitter conference like . When you're done you can cut and paste the content into your own website as an archive.

 

Did this news get lost in the mix yesterday?
Is anyone from @unleasharchives at the conference this week?
https://twitter.com/unleasharchives/status/930813072863666181

 

As if the upcoming conference at the Internet Archive needed an advertisement for existing: https://twitter.com/me3dia/status/926197470597705733

 
 

.@chronotope & @pressfwd may appreciate this conference
Dodging the Memory Hole 2017
https://www.rjionline.org/events/dodging-the-memory-hole-2017

 

It seems like such a waste of effort/time for a 23 year old conference to *not* have a permanent Twitter handle. @DNA23UT

 

I've discovered @hypothes_is ‏can be a useful tool for annotating a conference schedule to determine what I'm going to attend.

 

Feature request: Archive internal page/post links to Internet Archive on publish/update · Issue #23 · ManageWP/broken-link-checker https://github.com/ManageWP/broken-link-checker/issues/23

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://wordpress.org/plugins/post-archival/) plugin which essentially adds one's individual post/page permalink URL to the Internet Archive as it's published, though it doesn't include the archival of any links (references) within that same post.

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://indieweb.org/Internet_Archive#Trigger_an_Archive after a recent conference on Saving/Archiving News Sites which may be beneficial as well. It certainly exhibits at least an interest/demand for such a functionality.

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.

 

Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/proceedings-artificial-life-conference-2016

 

Richard Macksey's Humanities Center @JohnsHopkins celebrates 50 years as intellectual community http://hub.jhu.edu/2016/03/22/hopkins-humanities-fiftieth-conference via @BretMcBret

 

Complex Networks: From theory to interdisciplinary applications http://complexnets2016.org/home

 

I have to wonder at the horrible inefficiency of the social media strategy of the @ALifeXV enterprise.
Why do they register and set up a new twitter and facebook account every year and then spend the time refollowing people (and hoping that they're followed back again to rebuild what should be a continuing and built in audience)? Why not just have a relatively generic twitter handle, and just change the display name every year? Then their presumably returning audience will already be following them? The engagement on the user's part will have to be much better as a result as well. Surely staff time would be better spent doing this. There's also the question of how smart their conference must be if their social media strategy is so primitive. Do they know they could also swap @twitter handles on successive accounts if they really wanted to go that route?

What happens if I decide to register the twitter accounts @alifeXVI, @alife16, etc. well in advance of the next conference? This is a total social media fail.

Admittedly @14thALIFE had such a paltry existence, perhaps starting from scratch wasn't too bad an idea, but let's please be thinking about what is going to happen next year...

 

@Info_Universum You should invite Arieh Ben-Naim and @ChristophAdami to speak at The Information Universe Conference http://www.informationuniverse.rug.nl/