1. Well, it's not his personal blog, but something he's presumably
paid to write by a magazine, but yes, "post" or "piece" would have
been better.

2. It is a fair question. It needs to be solved.

3. Fair enough. Given how much energy OCLC expends worrying about Open
Library, I don't think he could be unaware of the implication.

Tim

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Peter Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tim --
>
> My perspective:
>
>  1) The "LJ article" is a blog post on Roy Tennant's blog.  It is
>    an opinion piece, not a journalistic article.
>
>  2) He asks a good question.  So what is up with the currency of
>    content appearing on the Wayback Machine?
>
>  3) I disagree that the "unstated target" is Open Library.  I
>    could have written the same blog post.  (I'd been meaning to
>    write a similar post.)  Roy is pretty much a straight shooter;
>    if his intended target had been Open Library, I think he would
>    have come out and said so.
>
>
> Peter
>
> On Apr 21, 2010, at 9:39 PM, Tim Spalding wrote:
>>
>> Roy Tennant just wrote an article about the Wayback Machine's currency.
>>
>> http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/190054019.html
>>
>> Tennant's doubt about whether the IA can maintain things "over the
>> long haul" has a sharp if unstated target—Open Library. He works for
>> OCLC and is one of it's principle public defenders. You can bet your
>> bottom dollar he'll use this against IA in the future, in support of
>> OCLC's contention that only it should have custodianship of library
>> data.
>>
>> Someone should get back to him.
>>
>> Tim
>
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