Formatting History: Lawmakers Say Government Papers Will Outlive the Software That Created Them. Then What?
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By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 20--Once upon a time, people used a software program called XyWrite to write on their computers. It was bodacious.
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For a lot of people these days, the data they create and store on their computers is worth more than the hardware itself -- especially if you factor in the sentimental value of years of collected e-mail and photos.-The Washington Post
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A series of encodings on printouts from color laser printers to discourage counterfeiting? At first, the idea sounds like the urban legend from a couple of decades ago that claimed you could hear Satanic messages when you play vinyl records backwards. Yet the evidence from the Electronic Frontier Foundation is that the encodings are embedded in color printers from all major manufacturers. Moreover, the issues raised by the practice have caused Free Software Foundation director Benjamin Mako Hill and other members of the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab to begin the Seeing Yellow campaign to stop the practice.
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Shining light on the 'digital dark age' The National Archives (TNA) and Microsoft have come to an arrangement to support long term access to digital documents.â¦
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Company turns over thousands of documents to House panel.
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By Sherman, Will  THIS ARTICLE, REPRINTED FROM DEGREE TUTOR, MAY SEEM TO FOCUS ON PUBLIC LIBRARIES-BUT THERE IS WISDOM HERE FOR ALL INFO PROS. Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries.
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Laws on use of sampled material are murky, and stand to get murkier before they get clearer, experts say.
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Records produced by Washington state and county governments went online Monday in what is being called the first of its kind facility for electronically preserving state documents.
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The government promises anyone with a computer will have access within a few years to millions of pages from old newspapers, a slice of American history to be viewed now only by visiting local libraries, newspaper offices or the nation's capital.
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Consider the New World of Information - stuff that, unlike the paper days of the past, doesn't always physically exist. You've got notes, scrawlings and snippets, Web graphics, photos and sounds. Stuff needs to be cut, pasted, highlighted, annotated, crossed out, dragged away. And, as Ross Perot used to say (or maybe it was Dana Carvey impersonating him), don't forget the graphs and charts.
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More than 200 years after they were written, huge portions of the papers of America's founding fathers are still decades away from being published, prompting a distinguished group of scholars and federal officials to pressure Congress to speed the process along.
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A project to put the Boston Public Libraryâs paper-based government documents online will take two years and require the hand scanning of millions of pages.
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The growing problem of accessing old file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the National Archives head says.
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By American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Sep. 17--Giving citizens the ability to search and track federal spending through an Internet Web site is a wonderful idea.   Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill that will do just that.
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Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link]
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Not since the introduction of the cell phone has the plain old home phone been in for such upheaval. The device long used for landline calling, recording voice mails, and storing phone lists may find itself replaced.