… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago:
The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt
A few key quotes:
The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than it [...]
A quick comment on the latest privacy analysis conducted by Privacy International. Their methodology is a very interesting read because it appears to be directly counter to what Google is doing with search and data aggregation. Two points in particular:
Data collection and processing
What type of information does the site collect, with and without consent? On [...]
I’m heading out to Cornell next week to attend a Digital Preservation Management workshop. In the preparatory readings, two preservations services caught my eye:
HD Rosetta: This service will etch documents onto a nickel plate at such a small resolution that from an 8.5″ x 11″ plate you can retrieve up to 18,000 pages of [...]