What is this rabbit hole? I must know.

@adamegriff.bsky.social offers a beautiful mediation of
LiveJournal as digital archaeology. Rehydration methods, ethical refusals, the remains of usernames and spam. Abandoned platforms. #DigitalArchaeology #4S2025

It really is. It currently has pride of place amongst my other doodads I've collected over the years.

I do really hope so! My main concern with an IA campaign is that their rapid-response preservation efforts can get large amounts of data saved, but they don't have the best track record on ethical stances and user consent to preserve, unfortunately.

If there's a site you think is worth preserving, let me know! I may eventually start a collection of sites, as the independent mirror format allows for interesting data analysis possibilities too.

Roberts was a hugely important Black trans activist and journalist, and her blog documents the evolution of trans activism over a 14-year span (2006-2020). She also wrote some pretty great trans-related song parodies, which are worth checking out.

One of my unexpected archival realizations from reading 1990s trans group newsletters just how many crossdressers and trans women held up his advice as gospel. Him and Carole Jackson's Color Me Beautiful (another name almost nobody remembers now).

I also find in FYS that they'll connect with hands-on work as something they can talk about when they don't know what questions to have, so workshop days help since it's a shared experience.

Yeah, definitely. Assigning double-duty assignments is a real challenge - I've never gotten good at it - but they'll need it. I'm returning to annotation assignments for all my Fall classes to develop their reading and asking questions skills.

I know they all poo-poo it at the time, but having the area subject librarian come in and talk about resources and citations always results in better research/writing.