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NEWS ABOUT FANDOM SPACES

Twitter Decides Not to Remove Inactive Accounts After User Backlash, by NewsGram. Archive Team offers this status report: "Twitter: Deleting inactive accounts sometime. IRC Channel #twitterdead (on EFnet)."

Verizon selling Tumblr to WordPress.com owner, but porn ban won’t go away, by Ars Technica. Link courtesy of our moderator morgandawn.

FANDOM ARCHIVED

Archive Team: Random Fandom at the Internet Archive.

Archive Team: Tumblr Takes a Tumble at the Internet Archive.

Archive Team: Yahoo Groups at the Internet Archive.

Vidding Fanvid Collection, at the Internet Archive; curated by Francecsa Coppa and morgandawn.

GENERAL

BGSU archivist working to document romance lit controversy, by Big Independent News. Talks about the difficulties of documenting digital material - though frankly, it doesn't sound as though they're dealing with more than routine issues.

The time machine shimmered back, by O. Westin of Micro SF/F. A cautionary tale.

The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing, by BuzzFeed News. Link courtesy of our member frobisherw.

Preserving fandom history and heritage, by xie_xie_xie.

Avoiding Kamino's Fate: Archives, Archivists, and the Preservation of Works of Fandom, by Erin Lawrimore.

Silence in the library: Archives and the preservation of fannish history, by Versaphile at Transformative Works and Culture.

People at snowflake_challenge are writing about their fannish histories.

RESOURCE SITES

Archive Team. Trying to preserve every at-risk portion of the Internet. Wow. See their Yahoo! Groups page for their current work with our Discord team. Here is their page on LiveJournal and their valuable Deathwatch.

ds_ficminers, run by our member juniperberry. Dedicated to preserving Due South fandom history. Many of the archived stories are from LiveJournal.

Fanlore: LiveJournal.

lj.search. A search engine that searches a cache of LiveJournal, covering the years from 2000 to 2017.

OTW: LiveJournal.

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