I’ve written before about the Bush administration’s use of the robots exclusion standard to tell search engines and web archives to stay away from chunks of the Whitehouse.gov website. As of last November, the robots.txt file was nearly 2300 lines long. (Here’s a copy of it.) In my opinion, such materials should be freely archivable […]
The Twittered Inauguration. Though I doubt President Obama will twitter from the podium tomorrow, many others at the inauguration will post tweets, photos, and videos at what the NY Times is calling a “wireless Woodstock.” Although wireless networks are adding extra capacity, they’re still asking people to try to limit their wireless use. No shock […]
I feel so badly for the folks at Circuit City who are losing their jobs due to the liquidation. Before law school, I managed an Electronics Boutique store. Retail management was actually a fun job. I enjoyed working with people (another reason I love teaching) and it was great to be exposed to continually advancing […]
