I have been a fan of Jeff Nunokawa (Princeton (USA) English Professor) and fortunately I brought his book “Notes” (2015) where he recorded all his significant daily posts from 2007 to 2014 on Facebook under their “Notes” option. The “fortunately” wording is because of the loss of “Notes” from Facebook in October 2020 along with all of Jeff’s brilliant posts. It was a clever foresight by Jeff to decide to publish these on paper and in a book format. My book of his is now a safe repository of his work.Their is nothing so unreliable as storing work like this in Social Media. So much more secure on paper and preferably in a book format ideally on paper. Although having a distributed eBook stored in many digital and personal libraries may offer some future security against the loss of your hard work.
Now I see that Jeff’s Facebook Profile still suggests in the title tagline you look for “Notes”. Facebook replaced “Notes” with under “Story” and using menu option “Text” you can write and article to share. But they didn’t archive Jeff’s original posts in here so they are lost. I also lost track of where he was posting content. Social Media tends follow a pattern of instant gratification not expecting users to search back in time. Unlike a blog that has been deliberately software engineered to meet retaining all posts forever. Unless the provider went completely bust and then achieving both in terms of transfer cost and longer term hosting with the associated enormous costs would not be feasible. Significantly using AI, like ChatGPT, you can extract from the blog and store the content on your own PC or an alternative cloud location offering storage. Or to really safe and bullet proof save by printing on paper which you can then scan, using a document scanner, back to the original text when required using OCR. Sort of belt and braces. Being that Jeff is all about Literature then “Belt and braces” (sometimes “belt and suspenders”) is an old idiom meaning taking extra precautions—doing more than is strictly necessary to make sure something is secure. It comes quite literally from clothing: a belt holds up trousers, and so do braces (what Americans call suspenders). Using both at once is a bit redundant, but it guarantees your trousers won’t fall down. The figurative sense developed in British English in the early 20th century, often used to describe overly cautious or risk-averse behaviour—like a lawyer adding unnecessary clauses to a contract, or an engineer adding multiple fail-safes
Now for many years like many other “techies” I decided the Google Platform was a safer data respository than Facebook, Twitter ( now X) or LinkedIn. Google did have a Social Media app called “Google+” from 2011 to April 2019 when it was closed down. Google unlike Facebook upholds better technical standards. Now I use the Google Blogger app. to post my written work there. I then provide a link to it from Facebook. I must admit on occasions this link gets rejected by Facebook when setting it up with me believing this is Facebook applying commercial pressure to keep your written content on their platform.
So my advice to Jeff Nunokawa is to start using Google Blogger for his posts with links into Facebook. Subject to Facebook accepting the installation of the links since Facebook attracts the most traffic far above that of Blogger.
Here is an example of one of my 18 Google Blogger accounts which are essentially written under a variety of subject headings. Blogger allows you to setup a URL to your account. Whilst you can always select specific posts within the Google Account to extract or share or print.The link below is to my post made just before this one. The Google Account is called “dmbpublishing” and the post is “dp25016” . It’s about my favourite radio now podcast and book presenter and writer. Melvyn Bragg. It’s worth noting that Blogger works better when you are using the Chrome browser on the iPad rather than their factory installed Safari. Apple since iPad0S14 have let you change the default browser. Banno
https://dmbpublishing.blogspot.com/2025/09/dp25016-me.html
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