Via Grim Pen, who found it at The Stoa, an article by Neal Beagrie, "Digital Information Will Never Survive by Accident." I wrote this two days later, but I hadn't read the piece. It's something I've been thinking about for a while. Charlie Stross
has written at rec.arts.sf.composition about the coming dark age (but he's got a good rant about Deja News, now Google Groups), and I've lost an entire blog, the short-lived predecessor to this one, and the first incarnation of the Sonnetarium (I've still got the poems).
This afternoon I read "The Wife of Bath's Tale" again, in Middle English, and I was thinking how much easier it is to read than Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. And then I thought that the Pearl Poet would have disappeared completely and forever had that text been electronic.
6:22:00 PM 
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