Today, it was my pleasure to present the Computer History Museum book prize (on behalf of the committee) to Dr. Avery Dame-Griff, for his new book The Two Revolutions: nyupress.org/978147981831...

@adamegriff.bsky.social offers a beautiful mediation of
LiveJournal as digital archaeology. Rehydration methods, ethical refusals, the remains of usernames and spam. Abandoned platforms. #DigitalArchaeology #4S2025

It really is. It currently has pride of place amongst my other doodads I've collected over the years.

My new official conference watch, found at Value Village. It's very Me.

I do really hope so! My main concern with an IA campaign is that their rapid-response preservation efforts can get large amounts of data saved, but they don't have the best track record on ethical stances and user consent to preserve, unfortunately.

Based on this news, are there any significant LGBTQ-related blogs that might be a good candidate for preservation? I'm hoping to connect with blog owners to organize preservation for the Queer Digital History Project prior to the September deadline.

"There’s the gagging ouroboros of history... you’re beating your fists against a wall that bears the indents of countless fists, going back forever."

Over in Autostraddle, I write about queer generational trauma: how it works, and how to tell stories about it.

www.autostraddle.com/what-is-quee...

If there's a site you think is worth preserving, let me know! I may eventually start a collection of sites, as the independent mirror format allows for interesting data analysis possibilities too.

Roberts was a hugely important Black trans activist and journalist, and her blog documents the evolution of trans activism over a 14-year span (2006-2020). She also wrote some pretty great trans-related song parodies, which are worth checking out.

So, I've begun doing something I thought I'd never do: actively mirror trans websites (instead of just relying on the Internet Archive). First up is a mirror of Monica Roberts' TransGriot. Because Roberts used Blogger, I've always worried about its longevity.

#6 - "1000 RLX Computer"

40 whole megabytes? Nobody could ever use THAT much space!

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.

And the blocking of content…

One of my unexpected archival realizations from reading 1990s trans group newsletters just how many crossdressers and trans women held up his advice as gospel. Him and Carole Jackson's Color Me Beautiful (another name almost nobody remembers now).

In light of today's 1A news, a repost reminder:

The internet has long been a place for discovery. In “The Two Revolutions,” @adamegriff.bsky.social envisions it as a means of exploring and enriching trans identity. Continuum calls it “an excellent primer for understanding trans life online”.

More:

I'm currently adding some videos to the
Archival Internet Video Index (apdame.github.io), and this 1987 commercial for a Minitel horoscope is probably my favorite I've run across so far.

I also find in FYS that they'll connect with hands-on work as something they can talk about when they don't know what questions to have, so workshop days help since it's a shared experience.

Yeah, definitely. Assigning double-duty assignments is a real challenge - I've never gotten good at it - but they'll need it. I'm returning to annotation assignments for all my Fall classes to develop their reading and asking questions skills.

I know they all poo-poo it at the time, but having the area subject librarian come in and talk about resources and citations always results in better research/writing.

I do love how the power of unregulated internet capitalism is clearly blowing Mr. Monopoly's mind. An evergreen statement for the times.

(I look forward to twenty five years from now, when I find a copy of Monopoly - The AI Edition and/or Monopoly - The Crypto Edition at my local Savers.)

A chuckle for today: I found this practically mint-in-box copy of the Perfect Dot-Com Bubble artifact. It's got it all, from literal surfing imagery to You've Got Mail jokes.

My favorite part? The fact all the money is in millions, since "$200 million...today's starting dot-com salary!"

"We really do want to stay in touch. We’d love for us to find a way to be part of each other’s lives. We don’t want you to think we’re just abandoning you at the exact moment when allyship would actually count for something tangible in this world."

"Your monograph on Lord Byron’s juvenilia has a new reader. Bad news: It’s a graduate student, and they are going to eviscerate it in chapter 2 of their dissertation."

Parg' "Survivor" is this year's "car commercial" song, imo. #eurovision