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Yes. I was reflecting on the last day how this was our "Great Exhibition", it will be talked about in 100 years, but only just...

Ham | Homepage | 12.09.12 - 7:12 a.m. | #

It's the cataloguing, filing, and archiving that is important.

A fantastic job, extremely well done.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 12.09.12 - 7:16 a.m. | #

In your blog dated May 22nd 2007 you tell us that the British Library were going to keep copies of your blog then, and at regular times in the future.
So hopefully you will not lose all your work as you wrote today "..doing this on a potentially-transient platform like Blogger is risky, and my every word could be swept away on an executive's whim."
So your should survive as long as the British library exists.
Your blogs are certainly worth keeping for future generations to read.

John | 12.09.12 - 8:02 a.m. | #

You mean you don't print off and file a copy of your blog each day or commit your pictures to disc or stick?

Waterhouse | 12.09.12 - 8:24 a.m. | #

What John said. Your blog has been archived by the British Library (I know- I've looked) so your words will last as long as they do.

Richard | Homepage | 12.09.12 - 9:51 a.m. | #

True. True.

Greg | 12.09.12 - 10:11 a.m. | #

Does the British Library keep a copy of the comments?

Andrew | 12.09.12 - 10:15 a.m. | #

Digital archiving is a thorn is the side for those in the know (not me). Who decides what to archive and what will be worth reading in 100 years time? And how will it be read? I can't even access my Supercalc files from 15 years ago.

Dave | 12.09.12 - 10:43 a.m. | #

There is also web.archive.org which is attempting to create an archive of the internet (an impossible job of course). It does have some days posts although it's a bit hit and miss and does not seem to have anything from this year sadly.

Jon Combe | 12.09.12 - 12:48 p.m. | #

Great idea to keep your contribution to London 2012 for posterity. I discovered your blog looking for pictures of the Olympic Park and have thoroughly enjoyed reading about your experiences of the Games and your beautiful photographs. I wish I'd discovered it earlier as your guides would have been of great help to me before I attended the Paralympics. Still I enjoyed my own voyage of discovery and can now nod sagely in agreement with many of the observations you make.

Janet Richardson | Homepage | 12.09.12 - 1:24 p.m. | #

I thought it would be safe to return to reading your (generally) interesting blog once the circus was over; my mistake!

michael rowland | 12.09.12 - 2:55 p.m. | #

Hi michael.
Your mistake.
dg

diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.09.12 - 4:53 p.m. | #

Indeed, my blog is archived by the British Library, which is damned excellent.

Unfortunately, since Blogger started truncating pages to meet performance targets, my monthly archives no longer exist as complete pages. Roughly speaking, the first half of every month now falls below the cut off point and is not accessible. Today's post, for example, will never make it into the archive. Bugger Blogger.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.09.12 - 4:57 p.m. | #

Did someone ask for snarky observations via Twitter?

swirlythingy | Homepage | 12.09.12 - 6:08 p.m. | #

One of the noticeable trends of modern media is for people to try to record everything on smartphones and hence not actually watching the action probably.

I suspect of the 80,000 in the stadium on Super Saturday - 10,000 watched Mo dash down the home straight through a camera lens of some kind.

Drives me mad - watch it, soak it in, remember it. Buy the official DVD if you want to see it again not some grainy footage of someone in the distance.

Matt | Homepage | 12.09.12 - 8:35 p.m. | #

Dave, regarding your comment 'I can't even access my Supercalc files from 15 years ago':-

There is some advice on doing this in the Telegraph's 'Over to You' column of 30/09/03, currently accessible online free.

I don't know whether the DT or anyone else will archive that column though!

Bob Lindsay-Smith | 12.09.12 - 10:11 p.m. | #

I really enjoyed your commentary over the last few weeks, DG; and I don't even like sport [except footy of course].

Many thanks, as always.

Suse | 13.09.12 - 2:42 p.m. | #

Somewhat related to this issue, the V&A is currently showing an exhibition called Recording Britain. At the start of the second world war Sir Kenneth Clark decided that Britain’s landscapes and buildings, especially those at risk from impending destruction and development after the war needed recording for posterity. Artists (who were not official war artists), were commissioned to seek and record such subjects (mainly through the medium of watercolours – of course, there were parallel photography projects but this was more for technical and reconstruction purposes). Some amazing folk art and locales across the country were captured and so are now there for us to see decades later thanks to one man’s foresight.

I thought of this blog when viewing this exhibition the other day, especially when I saw Laura Oldfield Ford’s entry, she’s an artist who has been capturing the changes to the lower Lea Valley since the Olympics were announced. In years to come we will have the official narrative, which will be all that’s left after the ephemera of social media have gone. But this blog captures so much more than that, it will indeed be a valuable and unique resource in the future. I hope you’ll consider publishing it in some format at some point (or maybe contributing some of your entries to Smoke London’s Olympics publication)…?

s | 14.09.12 - 11:17 a.m. | #











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