» Long Bets Bet – How Durable Are URLs? - Blog of the Long Now
The Long Now blog is featuring the bet between myself and Matt on URL longevity. Just being mentioned on that site gives me a warm glow.
Tags: longevity
Jeremy Keith: One Web — Update 2011 - YouTube
My short talk from Aral’s Update conference in Brighton last September. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. If I only I had a handheld mic—then I could’ve done a microphone drop at the end.
10,000 Year Clock
Jeff Bezos has put together a little site to give some background on The Clock Of The Long Now: soon to be open to visitors.
Geek Ninja Battle Night | Stuff and Nonsense
Andy hammers home the benefit of a long-term format like HTML compared to the brittle, fleeting shininess of an ephemeral platform-specific app.
My Father’s Final Gift « Aza on Design
The beautifully-written and moving story of a father’s last gift to his son. The father is Jef Raskin; the son is Aza Raskin.
Carlos Bueno: A Paper Internet
Preserving the papernet.
Does the Web remember too much — or too little? — Scott Rosenberg
Yes! Yes! Yes! An excellent fisking of that ridiculous New York Times article that confused problems in the present with data longevity.
Rams’ Principles Series: 7 of 10 | Inksie Journal of Design & Culture
Mandy's take on Dieter Rams's design principle that "good design is long-lasting."
yws-search-general : Message: Term Extraction and Contextual Web Search services to be discontinued
Crap. The very powerful term extractor API from Yahoo is being closed down. Sad developer is sad.
Will my site be archived? Yahoo! GeoCities Help
Archive.org is indexing Geocities sites (as it always has). Yahoo are going to fuck all about their users data/dreams/memories and Yahoo are going to do fuck all about the URLs.
An essay on W3C's design principles - Contents
Bert Bos's 2000 Treatise (published in 2003) is a must-read for anyone involved in developing any kind of format. "This essay tries to make explicit what the developers in the various W3C working groups mean when they invoke words like efficiency, maintainability, accessibility, extensibility, learnability, simplicity, longevity, and other long words ending in -y."
Why you should have a Web Site (and other Web 3.0 issues)
This presentation by Steven Pemberton increases in value over time.
The day the music died [dive into mark]
Excellent explanation of DRM by Mark Pilgrim, prompted by MSN Music's gunshot to the head.