The Alan Lomax Database is now available on the web. Lomax, if you aren’t aware, was obsessive about scouring the US and around the world for authentic folk musical expressions and recording them for posterity. To have this available on the web makes the world a better place. [via Mobtown Blues]
Archives for 2005
Inside Higher Ed:
Paul Ford,
in his great Ftrain.com: The Mechanical End.
If you were going to compile a historical list of the top 10 examples of writing that is native to the web, Ftrain.com would certainly be somewhere near the top of the list. What other sites would be on the list?
Well, they’ve gone and done it.
NYTimes.com to Offer Subscription Service. They’re putting MORE stuff behind a pay wall, not less. Discouraging, and I think penny wise but pound foolish. And I guess this voids Times’ pretensions as an organ devoted (partially) to serving the public interest.
Canadian politics is
often boring, usually as surprising as the sunrise, and there is a distinct lack of accountability in the whole system. But – when something does happen, boy does it ever HAPPEN. This morning, Belinda Stronach crossed the floor and joined the Liberal cabinet.
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