Most news publishers are terrible at maintaining their archives. But their are solid business and journalistic reasons for doing so.
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Under threat: the movies of the 80s
Ah, the 1980s. Digital watches*. Shoulder pads. Big glasses. And great, if cheesy movies. Recent enough that our cultural record of it is safe, right? The movies of my teenage years are under threat. Actor James Woods writing for Den…
Your archive content is valuable
What’s the value in archive content? More than you might think. Too many publishing businesses are caught up in the idea of the now, and they miss the value of the then. A huge amount of archive and historical…
Should your blog content fade like tears in rain?
An interesting debate has popped up about the permanence (or lack of it) of the conversations happening in blogs. Gina Trapani kicked it off with a post about why she’s not following the neophile herd onto Tumblr as their…
#likeminds - Feedback on Steve Moore and Andrew Dubber
 Combined into one as it was done in one go: Radiohead, Arcade Fire and OKGo are…
#likeminds - Andrew Dubber on medium-appropriate curation & creation
 Wow. Interesting start. Andrew Dubber just started by saying that he was with Ed Milliband in…