[06:57] OK, who on Archive Team wants to answer questions for a Swiss Journalist? [06:58] because I am just not in the mood to write out a massive set of paragraphs [07:04] lol [07:07] What's the questions [07:09] or did someone do it for you already SketchCow :P [07:13] Ooo, this could be your big chance. [07:13] Give me an e-mail [07:14] this could be your big break! [07:14] My big chance? :P [07:16] Oh, wait... [07:16] Oh, her deadline was August 5th. [07:16] Nice. [07:16] facepalm. [07:16] I sent you the mail anyway [07:16] Here's the questions she asked. [07:16] - First of all, a preliminary question. How should I describe you and your work. [07:16] - What are you currently working on? [07:16] - What's the difference between user-created data and pages and the one uploaded by professionals and companies? [07:17] - Why is it important to save all the data from sites like Geocities, LuluPoetry, Friendster or Fan Fiction? [07:17] - Who should be responsible for saving them, private copmanies, volunteers, states? [07:17] - To whom the user's data belong? [07:17] - Should we have legislation to deal with all those problems? [07:17] - What is the cultural value of those data and pages? [07:17] - When I read about Geocities closure, I read terms like "massive destruction" and "barbaric act". Is it really that bad and why? [07:17] - Why does a firm close a website instead of maintaining them alive and inactive? [07:17] - What could users do against closures? [07:17] - We do protect architecture and cultural work, should we do the same for web pages? and how? [07:17] - Will it make the web less dynamic? [07:17] Always worth thinking about. [07:17] Not always worth spending a fucking weekend writing paragraphs of answers to. [07:17] all nice questions [07:18] it sounds like she has read your blog post and you are supposed to reword it in an interview format ;) [07:19] heh [07:19] [08:16:52] <@SketchCow> - First of all, a preliminary question. How should I describe you and your work. [07:19] [08:16:55] <@SketchCow> - What are you currently working on? [07:19] I don't want to google you and fact check, plz explain 2 meh!?>!!? [07:19] So I assume I don't need to do this now, since the deadline's long gone :P [07:20] Yeah, deadline's long gone. [07:20] Or am I the only one who read it like that? [07:20] 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] in her own words [07:21] Ah ok, I've not done an interview :) [07:21] 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] Or going to your stuff and reading it, then reporting on what they read. [07:21] Or so on. [07:21] 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] I didn't like doing makebusy assignments in school and I have been out of school a long, long time. [07:22] hehe [07:22] * SmileyG loves a SketchCow rant. And I agree; [07:23] I have done a LOT of interviews over the past 14 years or so. [07:23] And I know which ones I like and which I don't. [07:23] So that one previously posted; It seems to me to be a "dislike" but... is it? [07:23] I always wondered how interviewers could bombard their subjects with useless questions...it's like, how do you not outright bore people [07:23] doing this by email is a bit weird...I mean it comes down to: "Tell me all about yourself" [07:24] "What are you wearing? ;-)" [07:24] lol [07:25] If you hit on the reporter, you get a not as good article. [07:25] a/s/l :P [07:25] hard won lesson, fuckers [07:25] loool [07:25] Bwahaha [07:28] 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] And then write in your diary about your amazing date [07:28] and ask him to sign your brony tee? [07:29] "Dear diary, today I got to smell SketchCow's breath." [07:29] "It smelt of floppy disks." [07:29] "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] "He told me that it was "archiving the moment". I tend not to argue with experts." [07:30] :D [07:31] BlueMax: Is that your kind of gig? pretending to be competent? :-P [07:31] I work in IT; I have to do that _all_ day :( [07:31] That's pretty much the motto of every IT guy [07:31] Besides the one that are actually, uh. You know. [07:32] "Have you tried turning it off and on again" [07:32] Have you tried punching him out and letting him get up again? [07:32] please don't :( [07:33] tbh I'm damn good at my job.... but you've got to stand up for the stereotype right? [07:35] No [07:37] Oh :( [07:37] 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] My own parents don't listen to me about technology...and I've been through enough tertiary education to get a CCNA [07:39] lolccna [07:40] ha [07:40] Get a ECDL as well [07:40] elliptic curve drivers' license? [07:41] apparently "European Computer Drivers License" - thought it was universal.. I guess the CompTIA/A+ shit certs are the equal US certs [07:42] wait [07:42] well I live in Australia, not exactly spoilt for choice [07:42] you need a license to use a computer in europe? [07:43] sounds smarter than not having one. [07:44] chronomex: No, it's just an idiotic certification [07:44] ok [07:45] 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] 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] * Nintendud walks in, sees < BlueMax> "Dear diary, today I got to smell SketchCow's breath.", walks out [07:50] probably for the best [14:22] Guild Wars 2 TÃ¼rkiye'den Collector's & Standart Edition ÃekiliÅine bu http://www.punchtab.com/contest?referrer=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.guildwars2tr.com%252F&user_id=NjkyOTEx&raffle_id=OTY4Mw%3D%3D linkten katÄ±labilirsiniz