Everyone’s worried about privacy, but I think we’d be smarter to be more concerned about what we’re saying online in the first place. [...]
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I just can’t imagine anyone’s especially interested in seeing me tweet “Oh god, oh god, there are 150 sugared-up kids running through the exhibits!!!” every day. I see the value in using social media for promotion; I’m not quite as sure how to make it worthwhile. [...] The Chicago Tribune is slowly digitizing all of their original photographs (all well and good) and then selling off all the prints, via http://tribunephotos.com. [...] While cleaning out old files in St. Brelade Parish (Jersey, a possession of The Crown) hall, ancient records in French were found identifying people by describing their ears. [...] Once again, an archivist’s and scholar’s work saves the day. Ottawa grad student Julia Gaffield found what is believed to be the only surviving printed copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence while doing research at the British National Archives in London. [...] C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet. Did interns at The Daily Show just get really lucky? [...] OCLC is recommending allowing patrons to use cameras in archives. While some institutions adopted such a policy already, others resist. I have faith that the library community as a whole will, for the most part, continue to embrace innovation. But can we do it fast enough, and not get left behind? [...] Filmmaker Laurie Hill has made a spectacular short film about absurd requests received by the Getty Hulton Archive. [...] Letters are such an important documentation of the human experience, however, from a very, very personal point of view. Thomas Mallon, author of “Yours Ever: People and Their Letters”, wants us to understand that they are also a common human experience we all share. In writing a letter, we’re deciding to communicate our thoughts to one other person, and in doing so, we leave a record of those thoughts. The letter as written is a private communication, and the letter as published (even in excerpt) is an unforeseen public display of those intimacies. [...] The Internet never forgets. The Internet remembers that you once spent hours every day on an X-Files forum, or that you once posted photos from your brother’s graduation party to your AOL account. You can delete all you want, but it’s still out there, forever and ever. There for your friends to find. Your potential boyfriends and girlfriends. And most importantly, your potential employers. [...] |
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