Progress on Literature and Audio/Video
"Literature" is a very broad term; it can mean almost anything, even a blog post, though calling microblogging "Literature" would be a huge stretch. Webster's definition of that term is: (1913, before modern computing)
The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
Over the next few years we'll have a lot to publish: videos, series, long articles, and more.
We've been collaborating with some other sites lately. Some of them are moving to Gemini.
Literature as a concept assumes textual form (for historical reasons), but we've been trying to move a little ahead of that. The other day I was very surprised to see were we serving over 25,000 video files per day. Yesterday it was even more:
grep webm /var/log/apache2/*.log.1 | wc -l 28445
That's not even counting MPEG, Ogg/Ogv and so on.
If time becomes available (we plan to take it easy because of the good weather), later today I'll record about 4 videos again (self-hosting and hardware security are among the topics next in the pipeline). Doing them is rewarding because many people watch them and share them. They don't contain ads, they don't demand JavaScript, and we always try to use free formats.
Our goal, overall, is to spread a message, irrespective of its form. Whatever works. █
