prototyping

8-1-20

with Michael -> https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Digital_zines_I:_PDF What is the way of publishing that avoids censorship?

What about real-time censorship situations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China

What about destruction on the long run? How does humanity archive itself? USB? Physical media. What about ecological consequences of infinite "cloud storage"? The low tech magazine, a website that runs on solar panels: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website.html Post-truth.

Non-realtime publishing strategies: http://blog.bjrn.se/2020/01/non-realtime-publishing-for-censorship.html Digital signatures, identity, ownership - "signing": any change can be noticeable, to track the originality of a document. Contrasting: To edit files? To re-publish?

A "living archive", organic form, subject to change? Collective editing.

Zines as resistance. History of zines? ref: Amy Spencer DIY: The rise of lo-fi culture.

production and distribution

PDF hate. Then becoming an open format (recenty, 2008), Adobe monopoly crash. PDFs with text (not only as a scanned image) > enables search function & copy.

What's up with "post-digital"?

Internet as the working memory of a culture, not really an archive... then projects like: web.archive.org or geocities archive (Olia Lialina): https://blog.geocities.institute/

Internet as an unsustainable medium. Cave paintings stayed for thousands of years. A sun storm that ruins all the chips will delete most of human knowledge in an instant. What would be sustainable and ecological ways of preserving big amounts of data for thousands of years?

Scene in the film V for Vendetta, some researchers are searching for data about a certain facility. All has been censored, deleted, lost. Te only way that they can prove the existence of the facility is through tax records that are deleted from the digital archive, but then found in the printed version in a cold room archive.

For whom do we archive? What is the worth of an archive if nobody reads it?

some bash stuff ------------------

wget (+link)

for downloading from the web.

display

to display (images)

gedit (+ download.sh)

my text editor, making a file named download.sh in the text file, write down the script that executes wget

bash download.sh

it runs the script that is in download.sh

-O whateveryouwantthenametobe

Add this in the same line to rename the downloaded files.

-x

adds a trace of the commands (prints out the lines)

| grep searching-this-term --color

you pipe this to the wget of a webpage.

| grep searching-this-term --color > wiki.txt

you save the ones that you were searching for as wiki.txt (stdout (-)). Use 2> to save smth as stderr.

/dev/null

byebye

ls | wc -l

word count used to see how many elements are in the dir.

[Bulletin board systems], [Community memory]

Archiving my own process of research=

Combining written text (.txt) and screenshots (jpg/png/gif) also excerpts of video and sound into a single "file"/in one place. Categorization of topics by hashtags. Live, editable archive of process assembled daily (weekly) as html. Automatic simple layout. Option to export as PDF (with text). To print.

Screenshots - way to edit them simply and editing metadata (or?) to include a footnote of the source. Instant quotation, source.
PDF annotations while reading being exported into a separate editable file. also include same data as above.