The fetishization of the offline, and a new definition of real
A good recap of the recent online/offline/does-it-really-matter discussion …although it does lend a bit too much credence to the pronouncements of that king of trolls, Nicholas Carr.
Tags: online
The Evolution of the Web
A nice timeline visualisation of recent history.
Long Bets - The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years.
This is my prediction. If you think it’s wrong, challenge it. We shall then partake in a wager.
Link Rot « The Bygone Bureau
Brilliant; just brilliant. Connor O’Brien remains skeptical about the abstract permanence of “the cloud.” The observations are sharp and the tone is spot-on.
If your only photo album is Facebook, ask yourself: since when did a gratis web service ever demonstrate giving a flying fuck about holding onto the past?
Pulling the plug on the BBC’s internet history « 853
The BBC’s decision to actively delete old content (rather than simply allowing it to take up some space on a server) really gets my blood boiling.
The BBC asked the public to contribute their memories of World War Two to a website between June 2003 and January 2006…” and five years later some suit decided to bin them.
Outline of a Digital Preservation System (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
Aaron Swartz gets technical about online digital preservation.
Cyberspace When You’re Dead - NYTimes.com
An accurately-downbeat look at digital preservation.
A real person, a lot like you | Derek Sivers
A beautiful reminder.
Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | This is a bubble that won't burst
"Not only did the head of Waterstone's underestimate the internet. Even Rupert Murdoch was caught out"
The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News
Suck it up, ya fixed width losers: your favourite escape clause has just been deflated. "Twenty college-age students read news articles displayed in 35, 55, 75, or 95 characters per line (cpl) from a computer monitor. Results showed that passages formatte