New Look Coming Soon

I'm in the process of giving robincpike.com a makeover and it will soon be moved to a new hosting server (not free, but totally affordable even for an archivist) so I can add "Web Tools For Archivists" tutorials that Google Sites (free) makes a bit clunky to create. You get what you pay for. This blog, which is currently separate from my site, will also be integrated into the main site. I'm also looking to add feeds onto my homepage--my blog, what blogs I like to read, etc.

What does this mean?

The URL for this blog will be changing, though the hosting service preserves old URLs, so those should (in theory) still work.

robincpike.com and social a/v archivist should still be indexed by search engines, and should still appear in their normal ranking. Google me. You'll see. Well, not yet.

I've already created an entire new section so I can add web tutorials for archivists, and might even integrate video. We'll see.

I will be blogging about these changes for the benefit of archivists or other people who'd like to do something similar.

Something Not A/V Related, but Tech

While getting ready this morning, I caught a quick segment of the Today Show. Normally, features during the 8am hour don't catch my attention, but this one was about mom blogs (a growing trend in overall blogging), but more importantly, blogging with integrity. The repercussions of negative, disrespectful, and anonymous blog comments have been in the news so it seems fitting to feature the site. I've had several different blogs over the past decade, writing about several different topics, and I've been involved in social networking sites since 2004. In my personal observations, it appears like the trend of anonymous rudeness on blogs and other social networking sites is unfortunately growing.

It amounts to this: be nice. :-)

Next On My Reading List...

I love mysteries, but I'm pretty excited that a colleague recommended this book. Frames (1 of 2 in a series that might be expanding) is about a UCLA film archivist that buys an old film house and discovers a skeleton amongst the nitrate reels! Can't wait to get it!

This makes me want to write my own murder in the stacks book.

It's Cool To See It In Print...

Another Resource

Thanks to the ARSC listserv, I have discovered another resource: http://digitalforward.net/. While there, check out their white paper.