Dead Letter Office: In the latest installment of my newsletter I embrace personal archival irresponsibility. (TL:DR: You don’t need to save all your old letters. In fact you might be happier throwing at least some of them out.)
Archives for Archives
Making “Accidental Archives” Pop
I wrote for Humanities Magazine about Pop Up Archive, a startup (funded in part by NEH) that set out to tackle the problem of how to make archived radio broadcasts, podcasts, and other audio files–“accidental archives”–findable and usable. Lots of interesting work going on in this space. And Apple just bought PUA, which is both a dream… Continue reading »
All Whitman, All Digital
Over at the Chronicle’s Wired Campus blog, I’ve posted a Q&A with Ed Folsom, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive. This is the first in an occasional series of chats with folks at digital archives about where they’ve been and where they’re headed. I’m doing it as a way to sneak in a little more… Continue reading »
