Request to FF: Before any shut down please ensure... - Cameron Neylon

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Request to FF: Before any shut down please ensure there is a a public archive made of the complete public timeline. There is gold in there for future sociologists (they just haven't realised it yet). For the rest of the research community here there is immense value tied up in here which we would like to continue to get at in the future.

August 11, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Could I also suggest that if there are licence issues that people declare that leaving a comment here means that they are happy to have their (already public) content archived in this way? - Cameron Neylon

Absolutely, mine also. - Garret McMahon

Dear FF team: archive my FF content any way you like, just please do archive it and keep it public. - Bill Hooker

I think that sociologists have begun mining what's available here. I spent months lurking here and on blogs mostly from an ethnographic point of view. And yes, I am happy to be archived. - Mickey Schafer

Yes, please! - Elaine is trying to write

Feel free to use my stuff - Archive away. - Chris Miller

If it's publicly posted here, it should be assumed to be archivable. While that's my opinion and applies to all my stuff here, I think it's also probably the consensus. - Mr. Gunn

Cameron, shouldn't you also post this to the Friendfeed Feedback room? You've posted it as a request to the organization, but not in a place they're as likely to be tracking. - Jill O'Neill

Jill I have, but its on a separate item. Check here http://friendfeed.com/the-lif... and here http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Cameron Neylon

Agree with Mr. Gunn 3 posts up. - Steve Koch

Aso agree with Mr Gunn but I wouldn't want something to be scuppered because of something odd in the terms of service... - Cameron Neylon

Are people attempting to archive their individual contributions? If so, how? I've posted a lot of stuff directly here that isn't replicated elsewhere. - Hilary