I've been archiving my Internet activity on my own server for a while now. I think I was one of the first blogs that aggregated data from all over the internet into one spot, but now it's all over the place. Today, the server that was collecting and storing all this information seemed to have disappeared due to a forgotten username, password, and a long expired credit card. Through some magic, I got it back, but I think I'm gonna take the sign as a reason to move it all to a bigger better happier server that will be up more often than not.
In the process, I've moved the database and cron script with all of my entries from the last almost 10 years (1st entry is from December 3rd, 1999). I lost my first year of activity from Diaryland because I got kicked off and it was all deleted. But, in hindsight, I think that's okay. Cause my early activity on the Internet was pretty angry and mean.
In any case, here's a breakdown of everything I've got saved so far:
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| title | count |
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| Flickr | 3809 |
| Twitter | 1312 |
| People Who've Found Me | 1304 |
| Typepad | 1288 |
| Flickr Faves | 576 |
| 43 Things | 575 |
| Live Journal | 494 |
| 43 Places | 426 |
| All Consuming | 372 |
| Dodgeball | 314 |
| The Robot Co-op | 234 |
| Del.icio.us | 195 |
| Netflix | 183 |
| Morale-O-Meter | 167 |
| Brightkite | 148 |
| 43 People | 116 |
| McLeod Residence Blog | 115 |
| Mutual Improvement | 91 |
| Upcoming | 67 |
| Enjoymentland | 65 |
| Vox | 55 |
| Should Do This | 53 |
| Vimeo Likes | 52 |
| Tada List | 40 |
| Facebook | 38 |
| Space Tag | 34 |
| Lists of Bests (incomplete) | 33 |
| Vimeo | 21 |
| Tumblr | 21 |
| Good Ideas | 20 |
| Odeo | 20 |
| Tumblr | 15 |
| Lists of Bests (complete) | 15 |
| One Offs | 15 |
| Seattle Public Library | 11 |
| 30 Boxes | 8 |
| Yahoo Answers | 7 |
| Yelp | 6 |
| iLike | 5 |
| Myspace | 1 |
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Now I gotta think about what I want to do with all this information. People don't even really read this stuff anymore. A lot of it is so old that there's no reason to really keep it around. What should I do? What's the future of all of our digitally stored ramblings?
Whatever the fate of my own crap, it's gonna go here:
http://busterbenson.com