June 9, 2006: In putting together the site, I’ve thought at some length (way too much, actually) about whether to use a long blogroll or a short and pithy listing. I wanted both! Therefore, I expanded the listings significantly and moved them to a categorized Links page with listings related to academia; courts; digital preservation […]
Searching the web, I found this flickr photo by “Ksaad,” who calls it “Digital Garbage.” Ksaad’s photo (which I’ve cropped slightly) nicely captures several parts of the [tag]digital preservation[/tag] dilemma — how many of these programs won’t work on a standard PC configuration of 2006? 2016? 2106? Even if a platform might somehow run these […]
Congratulations to my former mentor and current colleague & friend Bernard Hibbitts for winning a “People’s Voice” Webby award for his Jurist law website. Very cool, and very, very richly deserved.
Why use a chunk from Shakespeare’s first sonnet as my first posting? Quick answer #1: Because he wrote so much more beautifully than I ever will. Quick answer #2: Because I wanted a placeholder. Not-so-quick answer #3: When working on the blog’s design, I wanted something — anything — to serve as a placeholder. Shakespeare […]
