WE HAVE A REQUIREMENT to assess third level students on their collaborative work and it's all the better when the work is real-world. So when Simon McGarr noted the demise of podcasting.ie (the Wordpress site we failed to patch before it was scuppered by malware), an immediate project came to hand. Within the next three weeks, six third year creative multimedia students will resurrect the domain, the audio files, text files and the images. They will use the Internet Archive as their guide dog. Some sample findings follow below.
Internet Archive finds Simon McGarr talking about libel.
The Wayback Machine's advanced search.