Your Web Content:Forever or Fragile?

PodCamp Montreal - September 12, 2010

@AdeleMcAlear@DigitalLegacyadele@DeathandDigitalLegacy.comDeathandDigitalLegacy.com

RememberingRenée Wathelet

@endirectdesileshttp://endirectdesiles.comhttp://www.mexinada.com

R.I.P.September 17, 2009

What to Expect

Context: Making Stories

Mac’s Story

Forever or Fragile

Relevance

Leslie’s Story

Making Stories

http://www.flickr.com/photos/focus2capture/639187177/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lascaux-aurochs.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weighing_of_the_heart3.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Illuminated.bible.closeup.arp.jpg

Cave Paintings30,000 years ago

Oral Tradition

Personalized Prayer Scrolls c.100 B.C.

Illuminated Manuscriptsc. 1400 A.D.

Mass Media

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Printer_in_1568-ce.png

c. 1436 A.D.

By 1600 A.D.150 - 200 millionvolumes in print

People’s Tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brownie2_overview.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_garland/3197568476/

c. 1900 A.D.--> snapshot photography is born

c. 1932 A.D.--> 8mm film

Personal Stories

http://rootsnleaves.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-uncle-ralph-never-wrote-to-me.htmlhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bdorfman/15846725/http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolbrowne/2184235729/http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/307113147/

The Internet

1995

Digital Explosion

200 Billion emails are sent every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8&NR=1

Digital Explosion

200 Billion emails are sent every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8&NR=1

(90% are spam.)

Digital Explosion

http://hattrickassociates.com/professionalbloggingservices/everything-counts/http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/http://blog.twitter.com/2010/09/evolving-ecosystem.htmlhttp://mashable.com/2010/07/21/facebook-500-million-2/

145 million Twitter users

Estimated 150 million blogs

234 million web sites

500 million Facebook users

Digital Explosion

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/

4 billionphotos hosted by Flickr

2.5 billion photosuploaded to Facebook

each MONTH,or about

30 billion per year.

Digital Explosion

In 4.5 years, YouTube became the2nd largest search engine andhoused over 100 million videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

Digital Explosion

In 4.5 years, YouTube became the2nd largest search engine housingover 100 million videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM-kGGURWCE

It would take 28 years withoutsleeping to watch all the videouploaded to YouTubethis week.

Personal to Mass Media

http://rootsnleaves.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-uncle-ralph-never-wrote-to-me.htmlhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bdorfman/15846725/http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolbrowne/2184235729/http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/307113147/

The Future

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_coming_data_explosion.php

“More data will be created

in the next

four years

than in

the history of the planet.”

Mark Hurd

CEO, Hewlett-Packard

June 2009

Your Web Content:Forever

or Fragile?

Where We Are

Meet Mac Tonnies

Letters

http://rootsnleaves.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-uncle-ralph-never-wrote-to-me.html

FOREVER FRAGILE

Journals

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdorfman/15846725/http://www.thefoxes.com

FOREVER FRAGILE

Photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolbrowne/2184235729/

FOREVER FRAGILE

Audio / Video

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/307113147/

(kind of)FOREVER

FRAGILE

Digitize It!

Big and Cheap

Share and Access

Usable Archives = Expensive

Digital Dark Age

Identity Issues

Is an online identityan asset or not?

Transfer

Unique identifiers

Why is it so messed up?

Forward-focused

Rapid change

Sweeping TOS

Why Bother?

Telling stories is primeval.

Relevance

Historical record

Personal family history

No one will care

Meet Leslie Harpold

Now What?

Plan or let it go.

A Final Thought

“Maybe death is a good time to go offline?”Sylvain Carle

Yada yada yada

Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada

Q & A

TELL ME YOUR STORY@DigitalLegacyAdele@DeathAndDigitalLegacy.com