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2019-02-01

G+ backup strategy

My attempt to (ab)use WAYBACK as the place to backup my G+ experiments failed, only plain text content with public pictures works as expected. Vimeo or YouTube videos or playlists don't make it, shared photos or albums on Google Photos don't make it (403), and an unlisted (shared by link) G+ collection also doesn't work. Some historic sources in the Mismade Girl collection now got their first WAYBACK backup, better than nothing.

Two video + playlist collections on G+ can die (2 of 6), the content is available on YouTube. The Buzz collection is old news and can also die together with G+. Same procedure as for the nice Google Buzz when G+ killed it:
Actually I could now delete the last two remaining files in Google Drive, the vintage 2011 Buzz PDF is irrelevant, and I copied the very relevant 23C3 video to Google Photos. 50% (2+1 of 6) done by doing nothing, not counting "talk about it" here, that's the way (I like it).

The Archive 2018 collection consists of six posts with zero followers (after killing the auto-follow bit for both archives), SEO for YT stuff (2), SEO for other YT videos (1), WikiMedia battles (1 won, 1 lost), and if wannabe-"agents"  and other sharks don't grok why aspirant celebreties must have at least one CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA photo for WikiMedia it's not my fault: CC-BY-NC-ND is not good enough. Two posts were public copies of unlisted posts: 2018 done.

The Archive 2019 collection isn't closed yet, but after it's clear that Google will delete G+ (instead of only freezing G+) I'll limit further posts to some ephemeral art  intended to die in April. The nine existing posts are SEO for playlists (7), videos (1), and how I figured out YouTube channel art and the G+ idea of hashtags: 2019 done, nothing to do for 5 of 6 collections.

The 34 posts in the remaining unlisted collection can be separated in three parts:
  1. Stuff already posted here under the new tag FoG (now split from IPOAD.)
  2. Stuff already covered on enwiki, commons, or WikiData.
  3. Various historic 2006…2018 videos + interviews not yet covered elsewhere.
Testing my copy from G+ to Blogger is easy theory below, it turned out to be not at all easy, G+ has no share on blogger feature (or already lost it while shutting down), and if the news source only offers share on FB or twitter some HTML 3.2 table layout is a PITA:


Art Tavana (2016-05-26) in LA Weekly

Samantha Grasso (2018-07-15) in TheDailyDot

Sasha Grey (2018-04-19) in a Topic Monologue

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