[game_preservation] IGDA Game Preservation blog/news/frontpage now online

[Henry Lowood]

Thank you, Andrew!

At 01:56 PM 9/13/2007, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>Hey all,

>

>I've now updated the preservation's 

><http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2007/09/igda_game_perse.html>blog! 

>This will hopefully be the first of many posts to it.

>

>The blog will primarily record all the IGDA preservation SIG's news 

>and related project news (the stuff I was adding to the IGDA wiki), 

>but I hope to add anything from external sources, such as the new 

>videos at the Internet Archive, or really any other items of 

>interest from a game history perspective.

>

>So please email me if you want to have anything posted, or have any 

>content, or ideas for content (if you really are willing, you can 

>become a blog editor to post yourself).

>

>I will eventually get around to finding news and posting when I can, 

>then hopefully get around to (text) interviews with people - those 

>working on the videogames, and those who are working to preserve 

>them and the history (you can email me if you want to be 

>interviewed, I think knowing who is working on videogame 

>preservation is a good idea, since no one else would record who the 

>historians were :) ).

>

>I don't know of really any other videogame history news/blogs, so I 

>don't have much to model this on, and I'll see how it goes. (Of 

>course, if anyone does know of any I'd love to know). At the moment 

>the blog will stay as it is presentation-wise, since I don't know 

>anything about Moveable Type and don't think it can be replaced with 

>something more user-friendly easily (such as Wordpress), so if you 

>notice any errors, please tell me or Henry so they can be corrected, 

>and if anyone has a better colour scheme for the site, it'd be 

>worthwhile passing it on.

>

>Andrew

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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections
Curator for Germanic Collections; Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004
650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood 
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