The 404’ing of our cultural memories
Doug Haslam, on the big black hole of missing data. If we can;t keep all this around for a few years, what hope have we for a decade, a century, or longer? With every celebration of the popular social network, the faint Cassandran winds howl “What will you do when it’s gone?â€Â I say faint, because nobody seems to see an imminent demise for Facebook or Twitter, and conventional wisdom tilts to Google Plus getting bigger rather than failing to gain traction. We shouldn’t have to worry, right? Yeah, we should: I was reminded of Jaiku recently when someone brought it
