"Look upon my [net]works, ye mighty..." Here's a list of dead blockchains.
>From 2014. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588413.0 The list has only grown since then. I was recently asked to exhibit a project from two years ago that I couldn't because the service it relied on was no longer operational. Ken Wark is bearish on "digital collectibles" - http://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156418/my-collectible-ass/ But I find the illusion of permanence that millions of dollars of security a day can give is irresistible. ;-) - Rob. On Mon, 9 Oct 2017, at 08:54 PM, John Hopkins wrote: > On 09/Oct/17 02:22, helen varley jamieson wrote: > > agree. thank goodness my art is mostly ephemeral & can't be stuck with a > > financial pin like a dead butterfly ... > > Hah, thanks for that little reminder! Let's hear it for ephemeral > networked art > ("you had to be there" was the best reply I ever came up with when folks > used to > ask "what was that work about?"). OTOH, as a confirmed archivist, I try > to > capture some of those butterflies and stick pins through them -- but that > effort > is absolutely an impossible fight against entropy these days. The archive > is too > large, and formats for presentation are changing so fast. I am teetering > on the > edge of giving up -- right now I'd have to re-code all video works, and > completely reformat a 7500-entry blog to 'work' properly with the newest > iteration of WordPress. I refuse to go to corporate social media formats > of > distribution. And the 'punishment' of maintaining "a self-maintained > island of > personal research and expression in a sea of corporately hosted and > filtered > content" is getting to be too much. The full-time job has wrung all the > resistent mojo outta this former-networker. > > <sigh> > > Hard to remember that it is *all* ephemeral. Even the highest wall, the > biggest > museum, and grandest civilization... > > so it goes. > > jh > > -- > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD > hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny > twitter: @neoscenes > http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
