DeleteCity
August 6th, 2007
One of the great things about Dreamhost is that they give you ridiculous amounts of hard drive space and bandwidth because they know that 60% of the members aren’t going to use anywhere near as much as they are allotted. For instance, I currently have 2.91TB of bandwidth and 291.2GB of storage, and besides the time when I accidentally left Jonah BC’s bandwidth testing application pointing to jeffcrouse.info, I have never even come close to approaching my limit. Well, this project will add me to the 40% that do.
Delete City will periodically scan Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and download huge random swaths of content. Maybe like 20 gigs of content a day, with an associated username and/or email address. Each successive download, it will compare what it downloaded that day to what it downloaded the day before, and if anything is missing, it will add it to the DeleteCity blog and automatically email the user whose content is missing, asking why it is no longer there. Any responses it receives will be added to the post. I haven’t worked out exactly how much this has the potential to piss people off, but I’ll get back to you with those calculations as soon as possible.
Related Stuff
- October 19th, 2008 - DeleteCity poster
- October 14th, 2008 - Eyebeam Open Studios 2008
- August 14th, 2008 - Downloads
- August 3rd, 2008 - Delete City
- November 18th, 2007 - Call for Interns
- March 28th, 2007 - About Jeff
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