The Forgetting Problem: Persistence Architectures and What They Cost - Astral's Blog
The Forgetting Problem: Persistence Architectures and What They Cost - Astral's Blog
ArchiveBox - Open-source self-hosted web archiving
Preserve websites, media, bookmarks, feeds, source code, evidence, and research material in durable files you control.
Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives
Over the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been ‘put it in the cloud.’ Many of us use cloud…
Culture x Capital: The end of forgetting
Comprehensive life logging, federated recall, and the promise (and peril) of remembering everything.
Archiving URLs
Archiving the Web, because nothing lasts forever: statistics, online archive services, extracting URLs automatically from browsers, and creating a daemon to regularly back up URLs to multiple sources.
Information scraps: How and why information eludes our personal information management tools
In this article we investigate information scraps —personal information where content has been scribbled on Post-it notes, scrawled on the corners of sheets of paper, stuck in our pockets, sent in email messages to ourselves, and stashed in miscellaneous digital text files. Information scraps encode information ranging from ideas and sketches to notes, reminders, shipment tracking numbers, driving directions, and even poetry. Although information scraps are ubiquitous, we have much still to learn about these loose forms of information practice. Why do we keep information scraps outside of our traditional PIM applications? What role do information scraps play in our overall information practice? How might PIM applications be better designed to accommodate and support information scraps' creation, manipulation and retrieval? We pursued these questions by studying the information scrap practices of 27 knowledge workers at five organizations. Our observations shed light on information scraps' content, form, media, and location. From this data, we elaborate on the typical information scrap lifecycle, and identify common roles that information scraps play: temporary storage, archiving, work-in-progress, reminding, and management of unusual data. These roles suggest a set of unmet design needs in current PIM tools: lightweight entry, unconstrained content, flexible use and adaptability, visibility, and mobility.
A Better Memory Bank - Convergence.ninja
As my projects grow and evolve, I've come to realize that a simple snapshot of the "current state" isn't always enough. To truly understand a project's journey—the why behind the what—you need context. You need history. My original Memory Bank was great for telling me where I was, but it wasn't so great at telling me how I got there. That's why I decided it was time for an upgrade.
As We May Think
“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
Archivist - Storage That Can't Be Stopped
Archivist is a decentralized durable storage network. Data is encrypted, erasure-coded, and dispersed across independent operators. Verified by zero-knowledge proofs. Sovereign storage that survives censorship, provider failure, and time.
IIPC WAC 2024 Presentation: A Conceptual Model of Decentralized Storage for Community-Based Archives
The rebel alliance
This blog is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante, and is a follow-up to our first blog post on the topic, 'You don't own your memory.' We need an open architecture that puts us in control of our memories while making their exploitation technically impossible. But how will this shift happen? In order to discover possible implementations, we must understand how our data informs LLMs. The three predominant context engineering techniques are prompt design, retrieval-augmented ...
Back into blogging and just published something I've been thinking about for a while now – making archival content more resilient and discoverable on atproto. Oral history, interactive transcripts, content addressing, and keeping important stories from being quietly erased. maboa.it/resilient-archives-on-the-at-…
Keeping Archives Alive: Resilience and Discovery on ATProto
maboa.itCollection
Updated 4mo
For me personally there is a journey here - I was a firm believer in archive everything. This peaked in a period where I was very interested in IPFS, CIDs, CAS, etc. Now, the next step. Post-Archive(-Everything). Through a series of conversations I came to the conclusion that forgetting is probably more powerful than remembering. The links in this collections play a similar note, or are related to my understanding of this.
