We tell each other to self host in order to escape the big corps. But when we die, all the self hosted stuff is going to get wiped and history will only remember the archives that got stored by the big corps. And you know how history is written by the winners. Do we need a way to automatically hand over our sites to archive.org or similar? Or send them disc images? Nobody expects to get run over by a car but some of us will, today. I made no plans for this.
@kensanata Note there are also backups by public institutions http://www.bnf.fr/en/professionals/digital_legal_deposit/a.digital_legal_deposit_web_archiving.html If I die, the nationl library will have a copy of my blog :-)
@bortzmeyer Very cool. And old school. "The Web archives are accessible to authorized users of the BnF, in the reading rooms of the Research Library only. This restriction is the same as that which applies to all legal deposit collections. As of June 22th, 2009, the BnF offers 350 computers to consult its Web archives across all its sites, in Paris and in Avignon." Hehehe!
@kensanata This is simply because of copyright and other IP issues. The law gives the authority to the national library to collect the sites (irrespective of robots.txt) , not to publish them.