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BlogForever: a new approach to blog harvesting and preservation ? - UK Web Archive Blog The European Commission funded BlogForever project is developing an exciting new system to harvest, preserve, manage and reuse blog content.

The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history

The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history The ability to distribute real-time information through social networks like Twitter is a powerful thing, but a new study points out that one of the downsides of this phenomenon is the fact that much of the content that gets linked to eventually disappears.

Special Issue on Social Media Preservation and Applications (Springer) | BlogForever The rise of the blogosphere and the following explosive growth of social media applications and communities have affected greatly our culture and communications. The research community is aware of the need to preserve social media records for future generations. Thus, social media archiving and long...

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