August 2010
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“Everything we put on the Web is both ephemeral and archival — ephemeral in the...”
– Scott Rosenberg: Why trust Facebook with the future’s past? (via Phil Gyford).
He goes on to compare the way that older sites - like Flickr - expose an archive, whereas newer ones - like Facebook - don’t, despite the fact that some of the promotional commentary for the Places feature has been about...
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The contents of Governor Blagojevich’s storage units were auctioned off Thursday. It sounds like quite a party:
A ragtag group of 50 bargain hunters braved the sun and a pair of Elvis impersonators at Boyer-Rosene Moving and Storage in Arlington Heights to bid on mementos ranging from $5 boxes of the disgraced former governor’s paperwork, through office furniture, to a statue of...
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“Brazilian officials have concluded that he’s the last survivor of an...”
– The most isolated man on the planet by Monte Reel, in Slate 