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Re:Why the Library of Congress is wrong to archive Twitter by scott_s on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @09:27AM (#4260577)
Did you miss the last word of his quote?
Re:Why the Library of Congress is wrong to archive Twitter by davewiner on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @09:56AM (#4260699)
No I didn't. But I also noted it was the last word. :-)
Re:Why the Library of Congress is wrong to archive Twitter by eli on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @10:06AM (#4260737)
LoC is one of the organizing members of this: http://www.netpreserve.org/about/index.php

The mission of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is to acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations.

They've got a working group working on smart crawlers right now. If you've got some good ideas for making it easier to archive blogs, perhaps you should consider contributing.

Re:Why the Library of Congress is wrong to archive Twitter by scott_s on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @10:28AM (#4260851)
So your complaint is not that they don't archive blogs, but that they don't list it first among that which they archive?
Re:Why the Library of Congress is wrong to archive Twitter by davewiner on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @12:56PM (#4261633)
I wrote a blog post that explains my point of view, it's linked to at the beginning of this thread.
Re:Why the Library of Congress is wrong to archive Twitter by scott_s on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @01:42PM (#4261887)
And as esonderegger pointed out, your second point is incorrect. I also think your second point is the crux of your points; that is, everything you said assumes that the Library of Congress favors Twitter over blogs. How does that change your point of view?
Re:Why the Library of Congress is wrong to archive Twitter by davewiner on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @04:04PM (#4262637)
Okay you're making an editorial/legal objection, you'd like me to find a way to merge the note in with the first part. Consider it done.

We need a new acronym to go with IANAL, something like TIJABP -- This Is Just A Blog Post.

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/18/tijabp.html

Re:Why the Library of Congress is wrong to archive Twitter by scott_s on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @04:33PM (#4262793)
Considering how important you think blogging is, I'm surprised you don't feel the same about the quality of the content.