[FRIAM] scraping a web site

[Grant Holland]

Cool move, Glen.


On 1/4/17 11:05 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>
> My God, Glen,
>
> */Freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/*
>
> Now I have to think what I want to do next.  In some ideal world, I 
> would sign up for one of those websites where for not too much money 
> you can edit a web site, and bring the old site in and start working 
> on it.  But surely life is not that easy, right?
>
> This is amazing.  I never thought I would escape Earthlink.  They have 
> the worst help system … the kind where you have to repeat your 
> question over and over again.  I am breathing deeply.
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep 
> ropella
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 10:29 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site
>
> Hey Nick,
>
> I went ahead and downloaded your page(s) and put it up here:
>
> http://agent-based-modeling.com/ntnd/nickthompson/naturaldesigns/index.html
>
> Let me know if I've missed anything. I'm happy to help move it wherever.
>
> -glen
>
> On 01/03/2017 08:49 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
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> > I am in the uncomfortable position of being bound by threads of steel
>
> > to Earthlink.  Many, MANY, years I go I started a website on
>
> > Earthlink, {http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
> > <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
>
> >
>
> > }, and put a lot of my writing, and some commentary up on it.  The
>
> > website creation and editing medium (trellix) was pretty good for its
>
> > time, and there are many ways that I find the site quite satisfying.
>
> > But gradually Earthlink has withdrawn its support, and now I am not
>
> > sure I could get in to edit or change it.  Meantime, Research Gate has
>
> > gotten started, and provides a somewhat better place to meet the world
>
> > and archive my stuff.  And also, having the site on earthlink binds me
>
> > to them and their 22 dollar a month fee.  So. …
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > I am wondering if there is a way (or a service that would) scrape 
> the website and, possibly, dump it into a new and more reliable, more 
> website creation medium?  Please, ambulatory knowledge only.  I don’t 
> want a people doing deep searches to answer this  question .
>
> --
>
> glen ep ropella ⊥ 971-280-5699
>
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