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Robin Cicchetti

BBC News - World News America - Why everyone has to be a historian in the digital age - 11 views

  • Physically this data might exist somewhere but the challenge is making it accessible to future historians.
  • "The average life of a web page, as best as we can tell, is about 100 days before it is either updated or disappears.
  • "We are grappling with digital migration as a means of preservation, rather than analogue, paper-based preservation. The Twitter archive ratchets up this activity enormously."
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  • Twitter donated its digital archive of public tweets to the Library of Congress in April 2010.
  • "So not only is everyone producing history, everyone has access to history and everyone has to be a historian in the digital age."
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    Succinct article about the transience of digital information and the impact on history.
beth gourley

Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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    A must read--helps clarify "the court decision."
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    "How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright."
Jamie Camp

Goal setting: of distractions and staying yar | Not So Distant Future - 5 views

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    Wow. How hard it is to keep all the balls in the air--and to decide which ones you should just let drop!
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