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 > > > -- > Peter Murray http://dltj.org/about/ > Assistant Director, New Service Development tel:+1-614-485-6725 > OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network Columbus, Ohio > The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ > Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ > This email may be digitally signed (PGP.sig) http://dltj.org/pgp-email/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > > -- Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
