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Looksmart Acquires Furl

By alex | Published: 9/24/2004
I’ve recently posted about Furl, a site that allows you to archive bits of the web that you do not want to disappear. An email went out yesterday to Furl users indicating that it has been acquired by Looksmart. This is a very interesting development, for a few reasons. While discussing Furl with those who […]
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Blogs and Archiving

By alex | Published: 9/16/2004
This Saturday morning, I will give a short presentation to a working group of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) at the British Library on the role of weblogs in archiving (and archiving weblogs). The consortium consists of several national libraries, and our working group has the unenviable task of trying to determine what future […]
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Blog Server, Part Deux

By alex | Published: 8/28/2004
So it turns out that I launch a very beta version of our new informatics blog server on Software Freedom Day, which makes sense given that we are moving from the MT Server that has been up for about a year and a half to WordPress. There isn’t a pretty blog on the front of […]
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Mills on blogging

By alex | Published: 8/25/2004
The following is from the appendix of the Sociological Imagination, entitled “On Intellectual Craftsmanship.” I recently reread the chapter, and was struck by the recommendation of keeping a journal. I reproduce these paragraphs because of how they speak to the academic’s use of a blog, I think: What this means is that you must learn […]
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