In reply to Ron.

Probably, and still didn't bother to make a backup. The New Yorker published a longer version of this and he appears naive.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/why-did-google-erase-dennis-coopers-beloved-literary-blog

FTA: Cooper started DC’s (also referred to as The Weaklings) in 2006, after hackers broke his four-year-old “Dennis Cooper’s Blog.”