more weight than so much of what is printed on paper
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Founded by celebrated poet and White House guest Kenneth Goldsmith, Ubuweb for years has been housing massive gigabites of work that exists outside the lines—from audio archives of rare performances by avant-garde musicians and video artists, known and unknown, to whole lifetimes of textual and interpretative work dug up and given new life online. -- Vice on how Ubu Publishes the Unpublishable.
Kenneth Goldsmith previously
Kenneth Goldsmith previously
Sorry I meant giglibite.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:55 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:55 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
One of my favorite things about UbuWeb: they're not on Google.
posted by benito.strauss at 5:14 PM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by benito.strauss at 5:14 PM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
(...and then there are gigglebites...)
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:39 PM on March 9, 2015
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:39 PM on March 9, 2015
One of my favorite things about UbuWeb: they're not on Google.
There are artists who would have a completely different reputation if UbuWeb was on Google.
posted by charlie don't surf at 5:53 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
There are artists who would have a completely different reputation if UbuWeb was on Google.
posted by charlie don't surf at 5:53 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
> One of my favorite things about UbuWeb: they're not on Google.
They're on Google with exactly the same range of links as on Bing, whose crawler is not blocked by the robots.txt file.
I think the lack of extensive search engine indexing has as much to do with the 1999-era tables layouts and absence of any semantic HTML whatsoever.
posted by ardgedee at 6:14 PM on March 9, 2015
They're on Google with exactly the same range of links as on Bing, whose crawler is not blocked by the robots.txt file.
I think the lack of extensive search engine indexing has as much to do with the 1999-era tables layouts and absence of any semantic HTML whatsoever.
posted by ardgedee at 6:14 PM on March 9, 2015
Well, the second result on Bing for the search "site:bing.com" returns
posted by benito.strauss at 6:55 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
VP Ubuwebso somebody's paying attention to something.
www.ubuweb.com/vp
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.
posted by benito.strauss at 6:55 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
I read a great back and forth between the guy who ups Awesome Tapes from Africa, and the guy from Ubu, talking about what to do if someone else pirates something you uploaded and tries to profit from it. It was a weird conversation, and a new kind of concern as people unearth the non-mainstream.
posted by OmieWise at 7:48 AM on March 10, 2015
posted by OmieWise at 7:48 AM on March 10, 2015
<3 ubuuuuuu
posted by Theta States at 12:46 PM on March 10, 2015
posted by Theta States at 12:46 PM on March 10, 2015
Every time anyone posts something about Ubuweb I want to put a finger to my lips and go "shhhhhh" and wink and cock my head briefly toward the bar. Hopefully they will follow me there so I can buy them a drink and explain why the internet in 2015 is not a place where you talk much about the truly special places on the internet. Not in public. You mention it in tiny asides and let the ripples grow.
posted by hippybear at 2:12 PM on March 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 2:12 PM on March 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
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posted by Chocolate Pickle at 3:59 PM on March 9, 2015