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Preserving The Internet... and Everything Else
In Preserving Our Digital Pre-History I nominated Jason Scott to be our generation's digital historian in residence. It looks like a few people must have agreed with me, because in March 2011, he officially became an archivist at the Internet Archive. Jason recently invited me to visit th...
I know it was Adams' line, not yours, but ...
What happens when people become trained to think of information and entertainment as something they receive and not something they create?
When people become trained to think that? Hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of people has always thought that. Most people will never post regularly to a blog. Most people will never post anything to YouTube. Most people will not have more followers than followed.
Hell, that last one is simple math. The reason phones don't fit this mold is that use doesn't fall into an "entertainment producer" model, but a communication model. So the upper limit on producers of content on YouTube and other publicly available sources will be communication intended for a limited audience, that just happens to be available to the rest of us, if we care to look.
The Keyboard Cult
As a guy who spends most of his day typing words on a screen, it's hard for me to take touch computing seriously. I love my iPhone 4, and smartphones are the ultimate utility belt item, but attempting to compose any kind of text on the thing is absolutely crippling. It is a reasonable compromis...
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