Who's archiving IT's history?
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The mishandling of Babbage's baggage Column The relaunch of the IT History Society (formerly the Charles Babbage Foundation) exposes a problem which the Web has brought to journalism and historians - stuff is not being preserved. There are people, however, who are trying to build proper records of the past.â¦
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Memories of eccentric mandates and a vast repository of high-quality audio files leave former members wallowing in the past.
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Company turns over thousands of documents to House panel.
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The digital music battle of the  future may not be over where music is purchased, but where and  how it is stored.
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(Source: EMC) Analyst Robert Frances offers compelling reasons why IT leaders should re-examine their current archiving policies.
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By Dubie, Denise  Getting rid of obsolete computer gear isn't as simple as it used to be. The threat of data loss, coupled with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, has IT pros rethinking their disposal methods.
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The people have spoken. Amen Poll result It's official: the term ICT has joined mobe and lappy in the eternal fires of lexicographical hell after 1,396 of you (57 per cent of the vote) demanded its immediate consignment to the dustbin of history.â¦
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By Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 20--When she's not popping them in her aged VCR for yet another  viewing, Ruth Ann Rieland keeps all the treasured home videos of her children  and grandchildren, along with her photo albums, in a closet by the front door.
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Blog: The question of whether upcoming documentary was helped or hurt by bootleg copies that cropped up online may soon be answered.
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Records obtained from the National Archives tell families when, or if, Johnny came marching home, and what he did overseas.
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A UC Santa Cruz prof designs a tool to give Wikipedia users a better idea of how trustworthy entries are. The software flags questionable lines by turning the text orange -- the more it's been tinkered with, the deeper the orange. This, on the heels of the Wikipedia tracker that reveals who has edited the entries.
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Â· Archives cover worst excesses of Soviet eraÂ· Disappointment that only relatives will get access
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There are multiple known instances of lost or stolen tapes but, to the best of my knowledge, not one reported instance of anyone recovering and maliciously using data stored on missing tapes. It's just too hard for an average thief to retrieve it.
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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Also: Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Antarctica aside HP and MIT have formed an independent organization to support the work of digital archivists who use the DSpace open source archiving software.â¦
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States are rethinking their policy of publishing all court documents -- divorces, medical histories, arrests -- on the web. On one hand is the citizens' right to know how their government operates. On the other is their right to privacy. By Jacob Ogles.