Why the Internet Archive should get into social bookmarking

Created by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on October 26, 2005

Earlier today, I added a bookmark to my social bookmark service of choice. Among other things, I saved a cached copy of it onto the service. Then, I reflected a bit on my conversation with Cliff Lynch last week. I couldn't help but think about the cultural record that we're leaving behind. I thought about privacy. I thought about circulation statistics and the inferences that one might make from a book mark as compared to a page view. I also thought about all the commercial social networking players out there (and their acquistion by even larger players). It seems like the Internet Archive is uiquely positioned as an organization that I could not only trust with my data but also someone that could reap from the benefits of lots of users selectively caching individual pages that their robots might be missing. I dunno. It just hit me and I thought I'd share my $.02

Does anyone else see this as an interesting prospect?

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		Why the Internet Archive should get into social bookmarking Created by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on October 26, 2005 Earlier today, I added a bookmark to my social bookmark service of choice. Among other things, I saved a cached copy of it onto the service. Then, I reflected a bit on my conversation with Cliff Lynch last week. I couldn't help but think about the cultural record that we're leaving behind. I thought about privacy. I thought about circulation statistics and the inferences that one might make from a book mark as compared to a page view. I also thought about all the commercial social networking players out there (and their acquistion by even larger players). It seems like the Internet Archive is uiquely positioned as an organization that I could not only trust with my data but also someone that could reap from the benefits of lots of users selectively caching individual pages that their robots might be missing. I dunno. It just hit me and I thought I'd share my $.02 Does anyone else see this as an interesting prospect? Internet Archive \| Social Bookmarking Matt's blog Login or register to post comments 4786 reads Almost there ... Submitted by drupal on November 28, 2005 - 2:50pm. Almost there ... http://www.archive-it.org http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd051128.shtml#2 Login or register to post comments
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