IIPC WAC 2024 Opening Keynote Panel: Here Ya Free! Crossed Views on Skyblog, the French Pioneer of Digital Social Networks
National Library of France, Paris
April 25, 2024
Panelists:
Pierre Bellanger, founder and CEO of Skyrock Radio and founder of the Skyblog platform
Pauline Ferrari, freelance journalist, specialist in new technologies and former skyblogger
Jérôme Thièvre, Web Archiving Technical Lead at the National Audiovisual Institute
Sara Aubry, Web Archiving Technical Lead at the National Library of France
The panel is moderated by Emmanuelle Bermès, professor and researcher at École nationale des chartes.
The panel features an indepth discussion about the history and harvest of Skyblog, a cult blogging platform in the 2000s which hosted up to 33 million blogs by 2011 and shut down in 2023.
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