[erichocean]

> Publish your texts as text. Let the images be images. Put them behind URLs and then commit to keeping them there.

I sounds like he's saying ephemeral content is worthless and should be shunned.

I, and hundreds of millions of others, disagree. You want a bland, awful, boring society? Easy: make everything you do stick around forever—like a promise. And then watch the world self-police as the lifeblood drains out of it.

You'll get…Facebook. No thanks.

[idlewords]

The audience for this talk was people with very large collections they're bringing online. I was trying to encourage them to avoid exotic formats, custom plugins, custom software (shudder) when they put this material online, and make them web accessible.

For example, here is three quarters of a PETABYTE of historical American newspapers: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

[erichocean]

Okay, that makes sense. I 100% agree that bringing collections online in exotic formats is a terrible idea.