On Wed, 18 May 2005, Al Kossow wrote:
guess this is sort of related to the 'dead media
project'
has anything more happened with the revival of that?
I'm nominally in charge of it. It's looking for a willing victim,
two people on this list expressed interest, I gave them both edged
weapons, but I see no blood resulting from the intended fight over
it.
The Dead Media Project is in two parts; the visible part is the
web archive. The less visible was the mailing list, that generated
the content.
The list has died (any puns thereof so overworked as to be
unmentionable) and needs decision whether or not it's desirable,
or possible, to revive it.
There is some abysmal tech to convert emailed Notes into
documents. There's an ad hoc database of Notes from which said
abysmal perl code generates html.
The website part is trivial, and done, if there is no list to
drive it. It's in no more danger of lossage or decline than any
other website.
So there's no glory to be had, and a lot of work. True masochists
only need apply (eg. you've flogged yourself before, and will do
so for at least a year, say).
http://www.deadmedia.org