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Posted by timothy on from the privacy-vs-curiosity dept.

First time accepted submitter microphage writes "Mark Pilgrim, author of many 'Dive into ...' books and guides, has — as the saying now goes — 'committed infosuicide,' which happily isn't like the real sort. Except it affects the info that you've created. Let's hope Dive Into HTML5 has some sort of permanence."

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  1. I Certainly Hope He's Not Gone by eldavojohn · · Score: 3, Informative
    I reviewed his book for Slashdot when it came out and it got an 8/10 because it needed more details (not entirely his fault that HTML5 was still being implemented).

    I do recall he was great at mixing in humor and entertainment into an otherwise dry and toilsome subject matter so may I say that I sincerely hope he hasn't given up on technical aspirations. At the time that book was one of the best general resources out there for HTML5. I'm sad that his github repo for the book may only exist at mirrors now.

    From a comment on the article:

    His GitHub projects have been mirrored:

    https://github.com/diveintomark

    Dive Into Python 3
    Online: http://diveintopython3.ep.io/
    GitHub: https://github.com/diveintomark/diveintopython3

    Dive Into HTML5
    Online: http://diveintohtml5.ep.io/
    GitHub: https://github.com/diveintomark/diveintohtml5

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  2. Re:committed "infosuicide"... by Graymalkin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Deleting your Facebook and Twitter accounts is one thing, setting every website you've ever worked on to return HTTP 410 errors is something different entirely. Mark decided to take all his balls and go home and made damn sure you knew he was going.

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  3. My theory: by gblues · · Score: 5, Funny

    I blame a bad encounter with one of his cousin Scott's evil exes.

  4. Ha... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is all a marketing ploy for his forthcoming book "dive into HTTP 410", a self-help guide for anyone with a social networking account or those who host email with Google.

  5. He's living life by hellfire · · Score: 2

    I was a personal acquaintance of his and coworker for about a year and kept in touch for years. I miss our monthly Chinese buffet lunches. Last I heard he was working at IBM as a consultant but that was years ago. I also know that he has two kids in the mid to high single digits. He's working, making plenty of money for his family, and taking care of his responsibilities. It's sad not to see more on his blog lately. However his primary money maker was not his blog or his books.

    I too have a blog but it was neither as popular or as entertaining, but the same thing happened to me. I've gotten married, assumed more family responsibilities, and I just don't have time to update it. Right now I'm sure his priorities are elsewhere. It's not infosuicide so much as we all want more and he's simply not giving it to us. I'm sorry to say you'll just have to move on. That's the beauty of the internet.

    Mark if you are out there, drop me a line sometime.

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    1. Re:He's living life by Anonymus · · Score: 5, Interesting

      This doesn't even relate to taking your hobby blog offline. He didn't just close his social networking accounts, he took every site he ever worked on off the internet.

      "infosuicide" may be a dumb word, but I'd certainly say it's not just "we want more and he's not giving it to us". He wanted to take back everything he had previously given us. That's a bit unusual.

      And the beauty of the internet isn't to move on, it's nearly the opposite of that. Hundreds of people around the world had his stuff saved and are putting it back online even after he tried to destroy it. THAT is the beauty (and ugliness) of the internet.

  6. Wikipedia too by heptapod · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He's trying to remove himself from Wikipedia too and has been since 2008ish.

    For someone who appears to be savvy about computers and online culture it's funny he's unaware of the Streisand effect which is emphasized by the number of mirrors popping up across the internet despite his best efforts for infocide.

  7. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. Re:Lucky Stiff by larry+bagina · · Score: 2

    Have you ever seen them together?

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  9. as to why... by roc97007 · · Score: 2

    Here's hoping the reason isn't "Diving into the timezone database"...

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  10. Also mirrored here: by MAXOMENOS · · Score: 2

    http://diveintopython3.ep.io/

    This is the Python 3 version, last updated 2011. It is more current than the mirror in the main article.

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