plasticframes

This is some of what I learned about at the digital libraries conference this week.

This exists:


So this can stop: goodbye

It really shook me to realize that the internet resources I depend on I get for free, and that these free services have no obligation to me whatsoever, and could drop me and my information at any time. If google fails, and everything I've come to depend on crashes, and all of my old correspondence is gone, and nobody comments on my myspace page, where would I be? The robots would win. Not like in the Terminator sense, but if all of our information goes digital, and something goes wrong, we are totally fucked. For real. All that information, lost. Environmentalists and cheap "green" institutions would take the blame.

I think I might start printing old emails.