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.
With an intro from Euan Semple, JP Rangaswami revisits Cluetrain past, present and future. This should be required viewing for social media "experts" and anyone who thinks that 140 character tweets are what it means to be connected as human beings.
JP is just. so. cool. And Euan's story took me back. I remember hearing about that talk, that trip, and oh do I remember that time.
I wish I had the chops to transcribe this -- if anyone's up for it, let me know so I can link to the result. If I get time, I'll try and get the fingers flying.
In the mean time, enjoy the video.
