Portriat of the Blogger As A Young Man - I like the analogy in the article. Web logs are like wunderkammers. Wunderkammer means cabinet/room of wonders/curiosities, precursor to modern-day musuems. Blogs make sense of the immensely huge and fascinating web. Bloggers serve as digital curators. They are collectors, driven by personal interests/viewpoints.
Reading Beauty - Yes, definitely a poster girl for libraries.
20-Year Timeline of Milestone Usenet Articles - This reminded me of my undergraduate days in the mid-90s when we used text-based Pine to read emails and Usenet newsgroups. Out of curiousity, I looked for some of my favourite Usenet groups back then. Eg. alt.ascii-art and soc.culture.singapore are still around.
Dipity - Speaking of timelines, you can create your own at Dipity, another tool to organise information, books read, navigate the web, etc.
October 4, 2008
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