Author Archives: Professor Nathenson

Inheritability of blogs: You take Aunt Esther’s silverware, I’ll take her blog…

Over at the user forums on WordPress.com, there’s an interesting thread on “web logs and wills.” Forum user timethief writes: What happens to . . . web logs if a person dies and their executor notifies [the weblog’s host] of their demise. Can one leave their account, username, password and API key number to another […]

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A digital dilemma

Searching the web, I found this flickr photo by “Ksaad,” who calls it “Digital Garbage.” Ksaad’s photo (which I’ve cropped slightly) nicely captures several parts of the [tag]digital preservation[/tag] dilemma — how many of these programs won’t work on a standard PC configuration of 2006? 2016? 2106? Even if a platform might somehow run these […]

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