{"id":2549,"date":"2012-02-27T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/digital-robot-archeologists\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:57:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:57:25","slug":"digital-robot-archeologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/27\/digital-robot-archeologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Robot Archeologists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I had a bit of a falling out with my ISP – this was related to the bricking of an internet router, and complicated by arcane corporate bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

The short of all this chaos and churn is that my internet service was interrupted for a few days, and chaotic for a few days on either end of that outage.\u00a0 As a result, my entries via DYNDNS <\/a>were hopelessly disconnected from reality, and the handful of sites still connected to my home server were disconnected from the aether.<\/p>\n

So, I decided to migrate this blog to my paid hosting account – I still have and use Livejournal, but I distrust it implicitly since it was bought by the Russian mob<\/a>, so I cross-syndicate there, but want to keep proprietary contol over my years-worth of writing.<\/p>\n

This move has been quite a mental process.<\/p>\n

The actual transfer of files and settings was not a big deal – that was a couple hours at most.\u00a0 What changed is that my new install of WordPress is apparently now cross-syndicated to the blog post services out there.\u00a0 This means that I’ve become a target for smapbots that leave comments.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, these comment bots come from all over, and have quite a wide range of styles and content to post.\u00a0 In certain cases, I think, to get past automated filters, they leave what seems like constructive comments.\u00a0 In other places, they are obvious link touts.\u00a0 Occassionally, I get Finnegan’s Wake-esque content, with a link embed in the account name.<\/p>\n

The bots have been commenting on over nine years of content.<\/p>\n

_THAT_ has been what is rough – I have taken these automated comments showing up in my moderation folder as a form of daily mental exercise and a dash of oracular ghost-in-the-machine.\u00a0 Some of the posts commented on are dead-link web content.\u00a0 Some are old writing segments.\u00a0 Some are inside jokes of yesteryear made public.<\/p>\n

All of them have been things that I would never mine in my own data collection.\u00a0 I have gotten 177 spambot posts since last week, and none of them have been on what I would consider the dozen and change posts worth anything in the thousand-something I’ve written.\u00a0 A number of them, however, have driven me down roads of nostalgia and past situation I often avoid – my reactions, in some cases, are identical to the reasons I avoid the issues in the first place.\u00a0 In some cases, however, I have found my mindset to be better or worse than the sentiment in the post, or the power of the comments.<\/p>\n

It has been interesting.<\/p>\n

I assume once my validity as a data mining enterprise is exhasuted, the comments will subside somewhat, and, after that, the outpouring of nostalgia will die down a bit.\u00a0 For now though, it is an interesting intellectual process – almost like having a future curator pick what is relevant out of your life, and forcing you to think about those things, even if you see them as marginal in most cases.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to work on the insights all this braintime is providing sometime soon, in the near future hopefully.<\/p>\n

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