Skywatch Friday: December 2019

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Organization: Archive Team

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Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: Archive Team: Blogger

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20251031042149/https://skyley.blogspot.com/2019/12/

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Skywatch Friday - Christmas 2019 Edition

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Tulsa's Holiday Tree for our Winter Festival.

I know Christmas Day is over but to me Christmas is a season and I love the time after Christmas lots more than the before. All the busy busy rush rushing is over and the vibe is relaxed. All that being said, I hope that everybody who celebrates it, had a great Christmas.

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Skywatch Friday - 19 December 2019 Edition

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I hope that everybody who celebrates the holiday, is having a great Christmas season with time with family and friends. Next week, it will be the day after Christmas. Remember Christmas is a season and not just one day.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Skywatch Friday - 12 December 2019 Edition

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Solar Powered Horse Barn at New Life Ranch, a summer camp in northeast Oklahoma

Welcome to another edition of Skywatch Friday. The skies in Oklahoma are kind of steel gray these days. The light is flat and bright most days. I hope that those who celebrate are getting ready for Christmas. So far, here in Oklahoma we have not had bitterly cold weather except that it has been cold enough to knock the ticks and chiggers down and put the snakes into inactive mode. That is a great thing for those of us who like to get out into the woods.

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Skywatch Friday - 5 December 2019 Edition

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Another week of Skywatch Friday. Thank you so much for participating. I hope everybody is ready as those of us who celebrate Christmas are getting very busy despite admonishments to slow down and reflect. I am trying to but life keeps intervening, both real life and blogger life when the linky tool blew up earlier this week when I was trying to set up this week's SWF post. It seems like it is working now.

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