scarcity of digital preservation efforts - was Re: eBay... Yikes!

At 07:46 PM 8/28/2011, Chuck Guzis wrote: I was still talking with Tom Jennings about it in 2005. Sellam was, too. I have a tar of it. To me, it was a data problem. Why support the ancient sorta-database that drove it? Custom flat-file database massaged by custom Perl that emitted HTML? How quaint by today's measure. It should've become something like a wiki, and the dead media it described are probably within Wikipedia by now with greater detail. Then again, the visitor-contributed stories were of great value, too, and Wikipedia doesn't really handle that except by external link. But to maintain my old curmudgeon certification, I guess I'll need to add that contemporary CMS and blog software tends to frustrate my needs and desires. I'd like to pour my brain and ramblings into a web, but I keep wanting something that's more like a newspaper or an encyclopedia and not a blog. - John