Simon Collison | Colly | Journal | My digital preservation utopia
Colly’s thoughts on digital preservation are written in a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek way but at least he’s thinking about it. That alone gives me comfort.
Tags: memories
Times Higher Education - Memory failure detected
A worrying report on the state of digital preservation and the web, specifically in the UK. Welcome to the memory hole.
History, our future - Preoccupations
A superb post by David that ties together multiple strands of personal digital preservation through homesteading instead of sharecropping.
Escaping the Digital Dark Age
Stewart Brand wrote this twelve years ago: it’s more relevant than ever in today’s cloud-worshipping climate.
I’d like to think that it’s ironic that I’m linking to The Wayback Machine because the original URL for this essay is dead. But it isn’t ironic, it’s horrific.
The Digital Storage of Analog Memories | Caseorganic Blog
Amber documents her attempt to turn physical objects imbued with meaning into digital artefacts.
Dear Photograph
Atemporality can be very moving.
Raiding Eternity - Myspace - Gizmodo
This is wonderful: sad, beautiful, and wonderful ...it's what I've been trying so hard to clumsily articulate. Read it. And smile. And weep.