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Everything continues
When The Pop Cop blog was shut down, I was tempted to call it quits there and then. The truth is I did… for a couple of hours anyway. Then the campaign to get my archives back from Google began.
That fateful night on May 14, a farewell Twitter message became a call to arms; a Get The Pop Cop back online Facebook group was set up by a reader I had never met. The next day I posted a detailed account of the turn of events that had led to the blog’s deletion, which prompted more comments of support, more strangers taking up the cause on my behalf.
Whether you sent an email to me or Google, or joined the Facebook group or tweeted a message of support, or wrote something about the campaign online, or even just talked about The Pop Cop with friends, you played a part in not only bringing the blog back, but persuading me it was something worth bringing back, and that this fight would not be fought alone.
It was therefore fitting that the solution would be provided by one such supporter, namely comment #19 on the original post. A reader by the name of Ah Fong discovered that a website called Google Reader (oh, the irony) had archived all three years of posts from the original blog’s RSS feed. All I had to do was copy and paste 435 posts, one by one, reformatting the HTML code in the process. A hellish job, yes, but in the absence of a response from Google to the campaign, it was the only one that could be undertaken.
The end result is that every word which was written on thepopcop.blogspot.com from June 13, 2007 now exists on thepopcop.co.uk, although it will probably take a few days for the layout to get a much-needed makeover, so excuse the lack of colour.
As for the promise of a “music blogging revolution”, this is something that will be put into action within the next week or so. Hopefully you’ll stick around to check it out.
The Save The Pop Cop campaign video at the top of this post will be a permanent memory of a lost, crazy month and couldn’t have been created without the tireless efforts of the blog’s supporters and video editor Gillian Morrison of Thought Out Media.
Thanks to you, The Pop Cop’s 3rd birthday can be celebrated today… many happy returns.
Galleries – Everything Continued (right-click to download)
13 Responses to “Everything continues”
June 14th, 2010 at 08:43
Great to have you back!
June 14th, 2010 at 10:27
Brilliant! 1-0 David and Goliath. Fab news. xx
June 14th, 2010 at 11:01
YALDY.
Welcome back, good sir.
June 14th, 2010 at 11:45
Good to see you back, you’ve been missed.
June 14th, 2010 at 14:16
hooray!
June 14th, 2010 at 14:57
Great news old chap, great to see you back.
June 14th, 2010 at 17:14
Yay!!
June 14th, 2010 at 21:51
Congrats – it was worth the fight.
June 14th, 2010 at 23:05
Grand to see you back, and grand to see that all was not lost!
June 15th, 2010 at 12:00
I have sent an e-mail to Google back then, I’m disappointed to know they didn’t give a f**k, but glad to know you’ve posted manually everything back.
Now that you have a self-hosted wordpress blog, you might find this plug-in useful: http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-db-backup/
I use it to receive each evening a back-up of my database via e-mail (the regularity of the back-up can be of course customized).
Also, a nice addition to any blog is the option to subscribe to comments (that way I receive an e-mail notification if someone replies to my comment). Here is the plugin for this facility: http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/subscribe-to-comments/
Cheers,
Alex.
June 16th, 2010 at 02:51
Congratulations Jason, you’re the man!
June 19th, 2010 at 04:54
Goodonya mate. Good to see you back. I look forward to my daily dose of Scot-Rock.
June 24th, 2010 at 08:36
glad it worked out
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