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ArchivesBlogs has been going strong for over a week now. If you use Blogspot and had a blog previously syndicated by ArchivesBlogs, your content may be temporarily unsyndicated. The specific problem is HTTP 502 error, which seems to indicate a problem with a proxy server at Blogspot. In any rate, they should return soon enough -- it would be nice to have the 9 blogs back!

I still haven't had enough time to process everything I took in or ideas I came up with as a result of the SAA conference. Many were more diligent than I and I'm sorry to say I didn't meet them, but some highlights follow:

• Geof Huth took notes on the SAA Awards Ceremony,
• Christie Peterson pitted Archon against Archivist's Toolkit,
• Jessamyn West blogged about her session on blogs,
• Peter Van Garderen discusses his experience at the conference including his session on archives and Web 2.0,
• and Merrilee Proffitt from RLG mentioned the blog session and RLG Roundtable.

I'm not even up to speed on the rest of the archival blogs out there. In a stroke of genius and madness I've got an idea that I may put into motion. I'm thinking about setting up an instance of Planet, a Python-powered web-based news aggregator. It's pretty common in the FLOSS world, and has been picked up by the code4lib folks; they're running theirs as planet code4lib. One of the reasons I think this is a good idea is that one doesn't need to use an aggregator (Bloglines, NetNewsWire, what have you) to get all of the content at once. This in turn eliminates a hurdle from those archivists that are not technically minded: they just need to be told to go to a single website to read everything.  What do you think? Would you be willing to take part?

Nearly a year ago I switched from WordPress to Drupal. I chose to switch back, partially because it was capable of doing way more than I needed it to! I thought I didn’t want to be limited by blog software, but apparently that’s not a terribly huge concern anymore. The old site had frightfully little content (three posts in Dalliance, a few personal posts, and links to papers). I’m redoing my non-blog site with PURLs since I don’t have access to an e-prints server to which I can upload my varied previous academic work. Anyhow, the important stuff is soon to come, with Dalliance possibly moving to another host (probably WordPress.com). Anything linking to one of the papers or my code snippets will be edited as needed.