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Data Backup Among Shared Value Communities



Note to self: begin investigating feasibility of mirroring the websites & writing of other people who I consider to be part of my “shared value community.” (SVC)

Broader application: If we’re all mirroring one another’s content, then the reliability and integrity of that data is likely to improve.

Even broader: Begin printing out full website archives of SVC. Wasn’t there some website where you could enter a blog URL and it would do a print-on-demand copy of that book? Time to start doing that, I think. Just in case.

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11 Reader Responses

  1. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 16th, 2007 at 6:43 pm

    This is exactly what the Nag Hammadi library was all about: data mirroring and backup among shared value communities:

    http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html

  2. Julia Says:
    September 16th, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    Didn’t somebody think about making a copy of the whole internet during the dot.com boom? I think it was someone who found himself a billionaire and was serious about doing this.

  3. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 16th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    Let’s research it collaboratively and figure out what the best way to address these issues are.

  4. p Says:
    September 16th, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    nice place to start might be by looking into textfiles.com, archives of BBSs from the old days.

    The curator, Jason Scott, also made the BBS documentary, which I found utterly fascinating (but I began programming in that era, as a little kid.)

    people could do internet requests in those days by having them forwarded through the BBS network until one with net access was reached. this is still being done by Chinese behind the firewall, no one’s watching the phone lines, only the routers!

    Another helpful keyword might be “accmail”, a system (now kinda rare, but very useful at times) to do HTTP over email.

  5. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 16th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    no one’s watching the phone lines, only the routers!

    The Matrix operators.

    Old school tech is about to become more powerful again very rapidly.

  6. Brooke Says:
    September 16th, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    This is exactly what the Nag Hammadi library was all about: data mirroring and backup among shared value communities

    Good point!

  7. Brooke Says:
    September 16th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    Wasn’t there some website where you could enter a blog URL and it would do a print-on-demand copy of that book?

    seriously? I’ve been looking for something like that. tell me if/when you remember/find it, please-thanks!

    Time to start doing that, I think. Just in case.

    word to that.

  8. Steve Says:
    September 17th, 2007 at 12:16 am

    After being away for a month, its good to come back and see you talking about some interesting cutting edge projects like this Tim.

    I can see increadible power in working with the SVC, to actually get some of those “shared values” actualised in the world.. like the evironmental movement did in the 60’s, or the people that invented break dancing, or the renaisance or the beats.

    Just getting out there and writing the book instead of reading everyone else’s is so powerfull.

  9. Lion Kimbro Says:
    September 18th, 2007 at 6:14 am

    This must be a bona fida zeitgeist;

    We’ve been talking on the same lines at CommunityWiki. There have been pre-shocks before this.

  10. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 18th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    We’re reaching a flash-point, I think!

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