The dusty corners of the Internet
November 11, 2008I’m curious about the various time-trapped bits of the internet these days such as Barack Obama’s Twitter feed, abandoned land and marketing exercises in Second Life and blogs that people no longer write in. All eyes in one direction for 15 minutes or 6 months, then onto something else. Are these the abandoned memories, newspapers, magazines and books of the 21st century? In 50 years is this what people will turn to to do archeology, sifting through millions of blog posts, pictures on Flickr, Facebook statuses to tell how we lived our lives….?
Time always tells.
I agree — this is a completely fascinating area: data garbage.
You might be interested in this article about a Second Life dumpster project by eteam: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2024
and some links I’ve collected here: http://michelle.kasprzak.ca/blog/archives/239
and here: http://michelle.kasprzak.ca/blog/archives/224
It’s something I’ll just continue to ponder, I think…
I’ve been waiting for the equivalent of the green movement on the internet!
If archaeologists normally dig through the equivalent of blogs for data, hmmm!
Hope you are well. (Coming to http://amplified08.pbwiki.com?)