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If you were at An Event Apart in Boston and you want to follow up on some of the things I mentioned in my talk, here are some links:

• Stock and Flow by Robin Sloan.
• Archive Fever by Matt Ogle.
• This Place Is Not A Place Of Honor on Damn Interesting.
• The 10,000 Year Clock by The Long Now Foundation.
• Carl Sagan And Ann Druyan’s Ultimate Mix Tape by Radiolab.
• Small Pieces, Loosely Joined by David Weinberger.
• Lest We Forget or Why I chose the World Wide Web as a repository for archival material by Simon Pockley.
• Cool URIs Don’t Change by Tim Berners-Lee.
• “The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years.” on Long Bets.
• Game Web 2.Over? by Meg Pickard.
• Link Rot by Connor O’Brien.
• Ugly and neglected fragments by Phil Gyford.
• Yahoo!locaust by Jason Scott.
• Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart on the Pownce blog.
• Why you should have a website: it’s the law! by Steven Pemberton.
• The Domesday Project by the BBC.
• Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services by the Open Planets Foundation.
• Swiss Fort Knox.
• Validation by Own Briggs.
• [whatwg] several messages about HTML5 by Ian Hickson.
• Juggling oranges by Mark Pilgrim.
• Accelerando by Charles Stross.
• Microsoft and FairUse4WM by Bruce Schneier.
• Forever by Mandy Brown.
• Why The Net Matters: How the Internet Will Save Civilization by David Eagleman.

Here are some related posts of my own:

• The format of the Long Now,
• Tears in the rain,
• Erase and rewind,
• Linkrotting
• and a previous talk entitled The Long Web.

More recently, Nora Young interviewed Jason Scott on online video and digital heritage.

I’ve been back in Brighton for just a couple of days and now I’m about to embark on a fairly lengthy trip away to the States.

Tomorrow I’m flying to a somewhat chilly Chicago. I’ve only been there once before, but I absolutely loved it. The architecture! The hot dogs! Cheeseborger! Cheeseborger! Cheeseborger!

I’m going there for Drupalcon. I’ll be leading an HTML5 workshop on Monday. I’d love to try to Abe Froman my way into the Web Science Workshop the day before, but I’ll probably be too busy finding somewhere to print off workshop materials (a service the conference organisers are unwilling to provide …it’s like the opposite of how Sophie runs UX London).

Right about the time that Drupalcon is wrapping up, I’ll head down to Austin for the annual geek pilgrimage to South By Southwest Interactive. I should really pay close attention Tantek’s SXSW packing and check list.

This year, I’m not giving a presentation or speaking on a panel so I can relax and enjoy myself. If you’re heading to Southby, I look forward to sharing a Shiner Bock or three—one of the reasons I like going is not just to see people I haven’t seen in ages, but also to meet new people who equally geeky about the web.

After the craziness of Austin, I’m going to unwind for a while with the in-laws down in Saint Augustine, Florida, which should be nice and relaxing.

After that, I’m off to Portland, Oregon; a place to which I’ve never been but about which I’ve heard plenty of good things. There’s geek meet up planned for March 24th. Come along for a beer and a chat.

Finally, I’ll finish up in Seattle for the first Event Apart of the year. I have no doubt that the conference will be excellent, as usual. I just hope that the presentation I’ve got planned can meet the high standards set by the other speakers.

If you’re going to be in any of those places—Chicago, Austin, Saint Augustine, Portland, or Seattle—I look forward to seeing you there.