DSHR's Blog

For a long time there have been a number of possible "holy grails" for digital preservation, ideas that if it were possible to imp...

Yesterday was the 30 th anniversary of Bob Scheifler's announcement of the first release of the X Window System. Congratulations to Bo...

I've already written skeptically about the concept of quasi-immortal media as a solution to the problem of digital preservation. But th...

More than four years ago Marc Andreesen gave a talk at Stanford's Business School in which, among many other interesting topics, he tal...

Two recent pieces of good news on the intellectual property front: The Hargreaves process in the UK has resulted in copyright reform legis...

Greg O'Connor had a piece at Gigaom entitled Moore's Law Gives Way To Bezos' Law sparked by the recent price cuts by Google and...

I posted last October on Seagate's announcement of Kinetic , their object storage architecture for Ethernet-connected hard drives (and u...