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Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net)
Ethan Chiel, writing for Fusion: Artist Dennis Cooper has a big problem on his hands: Most of his artwork from the past 14 years just disappeared. It's gone because it was kept entirely on his blog, which the experimental author and artist has maintained on the Google-owned platform Blogger since 2002 (Google bought the service in 2003). At the end of June, Cooper says he discovered he could no longer access his Blogger account and that his blog had been taken offline. Along with his blog, Google disabled Cooper's email address, through which most of his correspondence was conducted, he told me via Facebook message. He got no communication from Google about why it decided to kill his email address and blog. Cooper used the blog to post his fiction, research, and visual art, and as Artforum explains, it was also "a platform through which he engaged almost daily with a community of followers and fellow artists." His latest GIF novel (as the term suggests, a novel constructed with animated GIFs) was also mostly saved to the blog.WayBackMachine has some of the pages from his blog, but they are only screenshots. Google Cache is also of not much help. Slashdot readers, just out of curiosity, is there anything -- any service -- Mr. Cooper could use to get his artwork back?
The blog ate my homework.
Pedantic Purple
Millenials, I think.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
Backups are for pussies. Real men just upload their shit to some FTP server... ehm, never mind.
Wait, WHERE is cloud?!!
shit.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
And fortunately he doesn't have a backup, sparing the rest of humanity from the risk of exposure to animated gifs. Now can we get to work on the kittens?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Creating backups is soooooo last millenium... it's all in the cloud now and these "big data" NoSQL solutions are failsafe. Or failproof. Or whatever. The data is not lost, it's just missing in action - it may even show up one day all by itself.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
You better hope not. His "art" went Darwin. Let nature take it's course.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" ~ Linus Torvalds
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
they're using /dev/nul which is the secret sauce to being web scale.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
How the heck do you even back up a site like that?
Hmmm, maybe using a web page scraper tool like HTTrack or perhaps the built-in export/backup function on the blog site...
Perhaps Google has a help page that describes how to do this... Nah, that would be too easy....
https://support.google.com/blo...
http://techproblems.org/how-to...