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- Thomas Jefferson, via Mike Masnick

May 17
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“ The cacophony of the crowd erases the past and affirms the present. It started with search and now its accelerated with the now web. I dont know where it leads but I almost want a remember button — like the like or favorite. Something that registers something as a memory — as an salient fact that I for one can draw out of the stream at a later time. Its strangely compforting to know everything is out there but with little sense of priority of ability to find it it becomes like a mythical library — its there but we cant access it.
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John Borthwick on “Distribution … now”

This is just a small piece from a meaty and insightful essay by John Borthwick (Betaworks/Fotolog/AOL-fame). Well worth a read, but I particularly liked this chunk.  People say “The Internet Never Forgets,” and it’s generally true that if something is digitally archived it’s stored somewhere in our collective hive mind. But storage does not imply availability and timely recall. This is the problem that del.icio.us tried to solve, and while del.icio.us is orders of magnitude better than people hoarding bookmarks locally in their browsers, it’s still a far cry from the solution we all need: a permenant, instantly accessible memory that will recall in contextually relevant situations automatically. This is a solvable computer science problem IMHO.  Get to work Internet!

(via thegongshow)

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