When Journalists Lose Their Work History, We All Lose
Legendary tech journalist Kara Swisher reveals that even she is not immune to having her old work removed from the internet by short-sighted content management.
As someone who closely follows the ebbs and flows of the internet, I can’t help but find the sudden, overwhelming hype around “Web3,” essentially the blockchainification of the internet, to be something of a massive bubble.As anyone who has read a Gartner report can tell you, hype cycles tend to crest before they dissipate, and might bounce back after all that.But I think the reason why so many have become overexcited about the possibility of Web3 taking over the internet has much less to do wi…
Should the National Register of Historic Places Apply to Websites?
Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.
Pondering why, in the internet era, it has become so common for big tech companies to treat their power users like dirt. (Yes, this is about Google Reader.)