The Myspace music purge. The Google+ shutdown. As you store your life’s archive online, what happens when it’s taken away?
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Guests
Brian Feldman, associate editor at New York Magazine. (@bafeldman)
Jason Scott, digital archivist and historian for the Internet Archive, a nonprofit, free-to-use digital library. (@textfiles)
Heather Richards-Rissetto, archaeologist specializing in the ancient Maya of Central America. Anthropology professor and fellow in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Director of the Keeping Data Alive Project, supporting re-use and repurposing of 3D data in the humanities.
See Also: Why There’s So Little Left Of The Early Internet (via BBC News)