Stephen Downes

"Right now, as I type, the world is witnessing the wholesale strip mine clearcutting of the web for the ego-flexing kicks of the lunatic in charge," writes Alan Levine. So a reliable archive is all the more important. Here we have  which collects anything people have clicked an 'archive this' bitton on. "By trying one of their searches," writes Levine, "I can find find every single Wired URL someone has clicked the button to archive, that anyone can navigate to the way Sir TBL intended, just click a link and read. No greedy gate agent. Just putting the domain in the searchbox, I have free access to over 1500 Wired articles." I wonder whether I can devise a way to subscribe to that, to get new articles as they appear. I checked my own site (naturally) and found only two items listed. Either I'm very unpopular or people haven't seen the need to archive my fully open website. Maybe someone should, though, just in case. Life is short.