Tag: digital preservation

Xanga blogs-messy, earnest, gif-heavy diaries of the early 2000s-are vanishing. This piece argues why they matter, how to rescue them, and the ethical lines we should draw while doing it.

Digital voice recorders - and now smartphones - have moved oral history from backstage to center stage. They make memory tangible, messy, and risky. This article explores how democratized recording changes what we call history, the ethics it obliges, and practical steps for doing it responsibly.

How a browser game for kids became an early laboratory for online economies, identity play, advertising to children, and the long fight to preserve our digital childhoods - and why that matters today.