We get lots of emails asking how people could assist with Occult.Digital.Mobilization, but one particular role has been especially difficult to procure: archivists. As Occult.Digital.Mobilization's archive continues to expand, the urgency for a searchable archival list increases. Without a searchable index, our ability to cross-check for duplicates is reduced and interested students have no cumulative referencing. After several failed attempts to delegate this momentous responsibility, we thought we might pose the problem to the community and perhaps organize an incremental strategy.

Several months ago, Khephra began organizing guidelines for this responsibility. Here's a snippet of what he sent out:

Ideally we'd like a database of titles arranged by author's name with references to the digest in which it's included. If it were a database, it'd make it possible to prioritize based on author's name, digest release #, type of medium (e.g. pdf, avi, mp3) and genre.

Obviously, in the case of genre there needs to be some discussion on a basic map. Perhaps it could use the same "classification system" as we have on the forums. Perhaps the sub-forums offer a ready-made skeleton, or perhaps more distinctions need to be drawn. Through collaboration, we'll end-up with a superior artifact.

How you go about accomplishing the task is up to you, but with transparency and collaboration efforts can be maximized.

After discussing it a little further, we think Google Documents or Scribd would be ideal. Among other benefits, a public spreadsheet would allow volunteers to incrementally add entries as new digests are released.

So - anyone interested?

Once again we have had to move the index because the server it was hosted on decided to change their policy. The prior server is no longer hosted free of charge, forcing us to relocate. The Release Index link here at the forums will continue to be up to date as server moves are required, so instead of bookmarking the index itself, try bookmarking the forums and linking in to the index from here.

Of course, you could alternately just update your bookmarks.

If the index server is not working, give it a few minutes and try again. We do not have direct control of the server, so we cannot bring it back online if it for any reason goes down. There was a slight glitch during the transfer which blocked our access to the index for several minutes, but it was automatically resolved after a short wait. Please, enjoy!

- Frater Digimob Teknikos

Several of you will have noticed already that digimob.tk is no longer working. This is because the government of Tokelau has decided that digimob is a "special" domain, and wants to not only charge us for it, but wants to charge us more than the regular going rate for paid .tk domains. (In case you weren't aware, .tk means the domain was registered through the Tokelau government domain registrar, since Tokelau considers itself too small to really make any money from their country code without letting the rest of the world register there cheap. But that gets rather technical rather quickly.) Since we are a volunteer-run organization, we cannot afford to purchase the digimob.tk domain - and beyond that, once we start spending money on this, it stops being what it is, so we try to avoid paying for anything at all if we can help it.

All of this is a wordy way of saying digimob.tk is no more. Please continue to visit the forums by going to http://digimob.forumotion.net/ as you have been, and pass this URL to anyone who asks. We can't update the notes in the Releases, so there will still be many who cannot find us without your help.

- Sendoshin

Digimob is a quarterly-release group, but many of you may have noticed that two quarters have ended without a Release. Part of this is the fault of the current wearer of the hat of group Admin - namely myself, F.D.T. A combination of laziness, busyness, and lack of resources has gotten in the way, and for that I sincerely apologize.

However, another part is a general lack of assistance from the community itself. Live links are prohibited on the forums for two reasons: first, we cannot verify the legality of such links without extensive research, not to mention the applicability. Second, we prefer to share those works which qualify not only with members of our community, but with the world as a whole - which is why we opted to use Bittorrent as our Release mechanism. (There is also the technical limitation of using a free forum which doesn't grant us access to our forum database - if we get kicked off of this server for whatever reason, we may not be able to take your posts with us.)

So, the main reason I am not writing an article about having just released #30 is because we need your help. If there is anything in your collection which is not in ours (the Release Index was created to help check just that), please submit it for inclusion in our next Release. All you have to do is ZIP it up, upload it to a free file hosting site (there is a list here), then email the link to occult [ dot ] digital [ dot ] mobilization [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com. Our Content Team will download the files, check them over, and then include them in the next Release. If your files don't make it, wait to see if they show in the next Release before asking us what gives. We'll try to let you know if we can't include something because of legal limitations (this tends to be very rare).

If the time has not come to retire this project and give way to others, such as theoccult.bz (which has a high level of interest among members of this site), we will continue to do our best to provide what service we can. However, without your help, we will never be able to pull it off.

Go well, and may the Winds guide you in your Journey.

- Frater Digimob Teknikos

Occult.Digital.Mobilization (digimob) brings you another submissions digest with content not included in our mega-torrents.

This torrent represents a work of LOVE. All texts so far gathered, as well as all future gatherings, aim to facilitate the studies of sincere students.

Future releases will continue to include submissions from users like YOU.