[game_preservation] Improving the IGDA Preservation SIG Blog/News area

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hey all,

I've cut back from posting historical articles on the IGDA Preservation 
SIG Blog - which will get transferred over to the new site BTW (they can 
import things :) ). This is from what I said in the April roundup:

The format of the news will likely change in the future. Without help I 
am falling behind on the actual useful stuff to report on for 
preservationists, historians and the like (no one emails me any news, 
luckily I guess!). I'll probably post useful news immediately, on 
techniques, events (both ones you attend, and big events like something 
shutting down!), preservation/history projects and SIG items. I will be 
working on the Bibliography project for more or less interesting 
historical or game history articles, where I will likely point a feed 
from for more regular "Updates of articles related to game preservation 
and history that you might be interested in reading", whew!

Lots of exclamation marks, eh? I don't exactly have anyone editing my 
work :) What I will be doing in the future:

* Post all SIG related news, changes, project information
* Post all memorials, in separate entries
* Post important information regarding things that impact preservation - 
such as laws, major events (such as things shutting down, major 
donations to archives, museums opening, etc)
* Post all preservation-related events (such as DiGRA), and maybe retro 
computer/game events

Possibly:

* Post in-depth articles on special videogame preservation related 
topics, which are also mirrored on our wiki or other sites (such as some 
of the items we have as projects to get information about)
* Do interviews with historians, developers, or related people to the 
topic of game preservation
* Roundup what has been added to the Internet Archive

So, does everyone agree with what I'm doing? Is this better or worse 
then before? Does anyone want to help or provide some tips? We are on 
the lookout for more contributors for this, at least being available for 
an interview perhaps :)

I'll bring up the GDC-brought-up projects next week, a topic each so we 
can get those discussed a bit. The bibliography is still something I 
want to get done - I think there are different sites for papers 
specifically (as we've checked out), but a good resource listing 
videogame related topics as they come up will be good (for instance, 
every GDC seems to bring up a few key topics that get discussed by 
various people - this year, IGDA's QoL issues, "Immature Game 
Developers", and Metacritic being bigger ones).

Thanks,

Andrew