#archiveteam 2014-06-16,Mon

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Time Nickname Message
09:00 🔗 ats engineeringradio.us trying to sell his domain; worth grabbing: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2014/06/for-sale/
09:03 🔗 godane good news is all the domains are same site
09:03 🔗 godane .net and .org go to the .us domain
09:04 🔗 godane i sent it to the archivebot anyways
12:22 🔗 schbirid new osm talk videos at the pages on http://www.sotm-eu.org/en/program
12:51 🔗 joepie91 hey um
12:51 🔗 joepie91 do we have an archive of about.com
12:52 🔗 joepie91 surely that can't stay around for much longer
14:30 🔗 Nemo_bis joepie91: why? http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/about.com
14:41 🔗 joepie91 Nemo_bis: because they basically survive entirely off search engine ranking?
14:41 🔗 joepie91 and seem to get 0 updates to their stuff?
14:41 🔗 joepie91 other than content?
14:58 🔗 Nemo_bis joepie91: what do you mean "other than content"?
14:59 🔗 Nemo_bis Wikia runs on a 3 years old MediaWiki core btw
14:59 🔗 joepie91 Nemo_bis: new content still gets posted on about.com - though massively less than before, they've laid off a huge amount of writers in the past years - but the site itself doesn't get updated
14:59 🔗 joepie91 at all, really
14:59 🔗 joepie91 it's displaying pretty clear warning signs
14:59 🔗 joepie91 and is massive
14:59 🔗 Nemo_bis I thought about.com mostly lived of scraping and SEO-ising content produced by others
15:00 🔗 joepie91 no
15:00 🔗 joepie91 all their content is original, with increasing SEO-ness
15:00 🔗 joepie91 they employed a massive amount of writers in the past
15:01 🔗 joepie91 it's pretty much a dotcom boom company that somehow never went bust completely
15:02 🔗 Nemo_bis they have tons of stuff from Wikipedia and Wiktionary as well
15:02 🔗 joepie91 they might've added external stuff later on, idk
15:02 🔗 joepie91 I'd say that's a warning sign as well :|
15:43 🔗 balrog *very* relevant to our interests: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/how-we-found-and-installed-every-version-of-android/ and http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os/
17:35 🔗 SketchCow Huzzah
17:35 🔗 SketchCow Back from california
17:35 🔗 SketchCow geeking intensifies
17:35 🔗 SN4T14 Welcome back.
17:36 🔗 db48x howdy
20:31 🔗 godane hey SketchCow
20:31 🔗 godane you should know you put the wrong name into the items for mtp_netcast
20:31 🔗 godane *wrong collection name
20:32 🔗 godane you put mta_netcast for there collection
20:33 🔗 godane SketchCow: example item: https://archive.org/details/mtp_netcast_061001

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