Archiving tumblr blogs
We all know Yahoo owns Tumblr. And Yahoo has a … bad track record … when it comes to keeping things around. So it’s probably a good idea to think about how to make and keep copies of your Tumblr blog.
I’m in contact with ArchiveTeam, a group of irreverent archivists. If you let me know of particular Tumblr blogs that you think would be good to save, I’ll arrange for copies to be made. Feel free to respond via reblogs, replies, or direct messages. Or just join the #archiveteam channel on the EFnet IRC network, and mention them there.
(edit: Note that this won’t work for blogs that are visible only when logged in, sadly. Those, unless the posts are reblogged, are sadly likely to vanish.)
My approach to this has been to use an ifttt.com recipe to reblog my tumblr posts to my (self-hosted) pre-existing WordPress blog. If tumblr goes away unexpectedly I’ll still have that (and in the meantime it’s more easily searchable by me than the tumblr version, which was my original reason for doing it).
It might be a violation of tumblr’s TOS; not sure about that. I’m okay with that for now. Plenty of things tumblr has done have been violations of my own personal TOS. It’s an evolving relationship with room for give and take on both sides, is how I view it.
Reposted from http://ift.tt/29tMRLq.
