2013/Digital Preservation

= Digital Preservation =

People

 * npdoty.name
 * bradfitz.com
 * dreev.es
 * caseorganic.com
 * aaronparecki.com

What do you need?

 * Wordpress on your domain
 * Password prompt and BasicAuth Wordpress plugin
 * Email receive hook to create posts from email
 * For IRC notifications, need the Wordpress IRC plugin https://github.com/aaronpk/Wordpress-IRC-Notification

Words in the post title get turned into tags

Types of content archived

 * Photos
 * Emails sent and received
 * BCC'd the wordpress site on important or interesting emails sent or received
 * PDFs
 * Take a picture of a notebook
 * Audio recordings
 * Screenshots of websites (mostly to Flickr)

Other private info

 * bank account numbers

Things I would like to archive privately

 * Sleep logs
 * Personal life logger
 * Not necessarily concerned with privacy of content, but most people don't care about the details of things like sleep logs, runs, food eaten

npdoty

 * blog is really just emails written and BCC'd
 * http://bcc.npdoty.name

Other services

 * Evernote - but this is a startup that may be acquired and shut down (see http://indiewebcamp.com/site-deaths)
 * Zotero - citation manager
 * Pinboard for bookmarks
 * Flickr for photos

The case against everything buckets

 * http://al3x.net/2009/01/31/against-everything-buckets.html
 * the problem is that any system that requires you to create a title or choosing a category before creating content will eventually fail you at some point in the future
 * create now, tag later

Catch.com
https://catch.com/

dreeves

 * gmvault - http://gmvault.org/
 * private etherpad instance
 * gives the URL to anyone who he wants to see it
 * etherpads are backed up to laptop for offline access

tripit

 * can read your email looking for flight confirmations
 * or can forward to a special email address

flickr

 * caseorganic uses it as a visual bookmark system
 * screenshot of a web page or photo, copy+paste the article text

bookmarks

 * http://erinjorichey.com/blipbits
 * semanticscuttle
 * pjf has 507 tabs open currently
 * vimperator (vim bindings for Firefox)
 * `t` - start typing keywords, searches browser history by most recently used
 * social fixer - browser plugin to hide stories from Facebook, can add filters to ignore stories about keywords

storing people details

 * want a system to store info about people
 * name, foursquare account, picture, where we met, etc
 * wordpress with custom post type
 * google contacts
 * LDAP or CardDAV - can add this account on your phone