#archiveteam 2012-08-15,Wed

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06:57 πŸ”— SketchCow OK, who on Archive Team wants to answer questions for a Swiss Journalist?
06:58 πŸ”— SketchCow because I am just not in the mood to write out a massive set of paragraphs
07:04 πŸ”— CoJaBo lol
07:07 πŸ”— BlueMax What's the questions
07:09 πŸ”— BlueMax or did someone do it for you already SketchCow :P
07:13 πŸ”— SketchCow Ooo, this could be your big chance.
07:13 πŸ”— SketchCow Give me an e-mail
07:14 πŸ”— chronomex this could be your big break!
07:14 πŸ”— BlueMax My big chance? :P
07:16 πŸ”— SketchCow Oh, wait...
07:16 πŸ”— SketchCow Oh, her deadline was August 5th.
07:16 πŸ”— SketchCow Nice.
07:16 πŸ”— BlueMax facepalm.
07:16 πŸ”— SketchCow I sent you the mail anyway
07:16 πŸ”— SketchCow Here's the questions she asked.
07:16 πŸ”— SketchCow - First of all, a preliminary question. How should I describe you and your work.
07:16 πŸ”— SketchCow - What are you currently working on?
07:16 πŸ”— SketchCow - What's the difference between user-created data and pages and the one uploaded by professionals and companies?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - Why is it important to save all the data from sites like Geocities, LuluPoetry, Friendster or Fan Fiction?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - Who should be responsible for saving them, private copmanies, volunteers, states?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - To whom the user's data belong?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - Should we have legislation to deal with all those problems?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - What is the cultural value of those data and pages?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - When I read about Geocities closure, I read terms like "massive destruction" and "barbaric act". Is it really that bad and why?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - Why does a firm close a website instead of maintaining them alive and inactive?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - What could users do against closures?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - We do protect architecture and cultural work, should we do the same for web pages? and how?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow - Will it make the web less dynamic?
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow Always worth thinking about.
07:17 πŸ”— SketchCow Not always worth spending a fucking weekend writing paragraphs of answers to.
07:17 πŸ”— C-Keen all nice questions
07:18 πŸ”— C-Keen it sounds like she has read your blog post and you are supposed to reword it in an interview format ;)
07:19 πŸ”— chronomex heh
07:19 πŸ”— SmileyG [08:16:52] <@SketchCow> - First of all, a preliminary question. How should I describe you and your work.
07:19 πŸ”— SmileyG [08:16:55] <@SketchCow> - What are you currently working on?
07:19 πŸ”— SmileyG I don't want to google you and fact check, plz explain 2 meh!?>!!?
07:19 πŸ”— BlueMax So I assume I don't need to do this now, since the deadline's long gone :P
07:20 πŸ”— SketchCow Yeah, deadline's long gone.
07:20 πŸ”— SmileyG Or am I the only one who read it like that?
07:20 πŸ”— C-Keen SmileyG: no those are regular introductory questions for an interview in which the person has the chance to introduce him-/herself to the reader
07:21 πŸ”— C-Keen in her own words
07:21 πŸ”— SmileyG Ah ok, I've not done an interview :)
07:21 πŸ”— SketchCow In general some interviewers are very good at, say, calling you with recording turned on and then taking notes and generally putting together their article.
07:21 πŸ”— SketchCow Or going to your stuff and reading it, then reporting on what they read.
07:21 πŸ”— SketchCow Or so on.
07:21 πŸ”— SketchCow Some, however, send you fucking homework assignments, which they then get to cherry-pick for whatever short blurby interview they're working on.
07:22 πŸ”— SketchCow I didn't like doing makebusy assignments in school and I have been out of school a long, long time.
07:22 πŸ”— SmileyG hehe
07:22 πŸ”— * SmileyG loves a SketchCow rant. And I agree;
07:23 πŸ”— SketchCow I have done a LOT of interviews over the past 14 years or so.
07:23 πŸ”— SketchCow And I know which ones I like and which I don't.
07:23 πŸ”— SmileyG So that one previously posted; It seems to me to be a "dislike" but... is it?
07:23 πŸ”— BlueMax I always wondered how interviewers could bombard their subjects with useless questions...it's like, how do you not outright bore people
07:23 πŸ”— C-Keen doing this by email is a bit weird...I mean it comes down to: "Tell me all about yourself"
07:24 πŸ”— ersi "What are you wearing? ;-)"
07:24 πŸ”— chronomex lol
07:25 πŸ”— SketchCow If you hit on the reporter, you get a not as good article.
07:25 πŸ”— BlueMax a/s/l :P
07:25 πŸ”— SketchCow hard won lesson, fuckers
07:25 πŸ”— chronomex loool
07:25 πŸ”— ersi Bwahaha
07:28 πŸ”— BlueMax If I had the chance I'd interview SketchCow though. I don't know what use it would be or where I would send it or anything like that. I'd just sit there and pretend to be competent as I ask him questions
07:28 πŸ”— SketchCow And then write in your diary about your amazing date
07:28 πŸ”— SmileyG and ask him to sign your brony tee?
07:29 πŸ”— BlueMax "Dear diary, today I got to smell SketchCow's breath."
07:29 πŸ”— BlueMax "It smelt of floppy disks."
07:29 πŸ”— SmileyG "It was strange when he then took out a air proof jar and captured his breath and said "Got to saviour the moment" but I thought "whatever!"
07:30 πŸ”— BlueMax "He told me that it was "archiving the moment". I tend not to argue with experts."
07:30 πŸ”— SmileyG :D
07:31 πŸ”— ersi BlueMax: Is that your kind of gig? pretending to be competent? :-P
07:31 πŸ”— SmileyG I work in IT; I have to do that _all_ day :(
07:31 πŸ”— BlueMax That's pretty much the motto of every IT guy
07:31 πŸ”— ersi Besides the one that are actually, uh. You know.
07:32 πŸ”— BlueMax "Have you tried turning it off and on again"
07:32 πŸ”— SketchCow Have you tried punching him out and letting him get up again?
07:32 πŸ”— BlueMax please don't :(
07:33 πŸ”— SmileyG tbh I'm damn good at my job.... but you've got to stand up for the stereotype right?
07:35 πŸ”— ersi No
07:37 πŸ”— SmileyG Oh :(
07:37 πŸ”— SmileyG Well at least the devs here respect me and actually listen when I say "Don't do that". The rest of teh staff seem to listen most of the time...
07:39 πŸ”— BlueMax My own parents don't listen to me about technology...and I've been through enough tertiary education to get a CCNA
07:39 πŸ”— chronomex lolccna
07:40 πŸ”— ersi ha
07:40 πŸ”— ersi Get a ECDL as well
07:40 πŸ”— chronomex elliptic curve drivers' license?
07:41 πŸ”— ersi apparently "European Computer Drivers License" - thought it was universal.. I guess the CompTIA/A+ shit certs are the equal US certs
07:42 πŸ”— chronomex wait
07:42 πŸ”— BlueMax well I live in Australia, not exactly spoilt for choice
07:42 πŸ”— chronomex you need a license to use a computer in europe?
07:43 πŸ”— BlueMax sounds smarter than not having one.
07:44 πŸ”— ersi chronomex: No, it's just an idiotic certification
07:44 πŸ”— chronomex ok
07:45 πŸ”— ersi If you actually put that on your resume, people will have a nice laugh and then the resume will proceed to the trash bin
07:49 πŸ”— nitro2k01 I guess some people pay attention to it if they're 1) hiring in a non-IT field 2) the applicant is 40+ years old
07:50 πŸ”— * Nintendud walks in, sees < BlueMax> "Dear diary, today I got to smell SketchCow's breath.", walks out
07:50 πŸ”— chronomex probably for the best
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