My posts for Files That Last through January 10 are already written, though doubtless they'll get some more tweaking. Upcoming topics are "Time Machine Maintenance" (the Apple kind) and "Whose Site Is It Anyway?" (about the risks of having only one person in your organization with administrator rights to its website).

"Softly and suddenly vanished away." Files that may be boojums.

With this week's post to Files That Last, I was expecting a slight dropoff from the surge at its debut, hopefully followed by an increase in traffic in subsequent weeks. But the first day's hits yesterday exactly matched the number for the first post, and the number of hits today has already exceeded last Wednesday's ( Read more... )

Here's my first post with "real content" on FTL: Metadata: What's it all about?"

Today I'm launching a new tech blog, called "Files That Last." It's about digital preservation -- making files last. The term "digital preservation" is currently known mostly to people connected with libraries and archives, but it's a topic that's ripe for more attention from the general computer-tech community, as everyone relies increasingly on ( Read more... )