Archive: June 2013 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Leslie Johnston; (Year) 2013; (Month) June

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The Darker Side of the Digital Content Life Cycle

June 28, 2013

In May I was suffering from writer’s block and crowdsourced some topics for blog posts on Facebook. I got some very funny suggestions, many useful suggestions, and one that was both humorous and serious that kept sticking in my mind from my LC colleague Rosie Storey: “Digital content death cycle. Hoard, corrupt, abandon, neglect.” This …

Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure

Before You Were Born: We had Online Communities

June 12, 2013

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

My first foray into online communities was in the mid- to late-1980s, when the organization I worked for got some of its online services through UCLA. We got limited access to email and access to the Usenet discussion system. If you’re not familiar with Usenet — which went live in 1980 — surprise! It’s still …

Posted in: Digital Content

Refined by: (Author) Leslie Johnston; (Year) 2013; (Month) June