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BoingBoing “unpublishing” blog posts

By Ira Nathenson on July 8, 2008

When is it ok to delete a blog post?  Dan Solove wrote about this a few years back at Concurring Opinions, where he points to additional posts at Prawfsblawg (here, here, and here). More recently, BoingBoing faced public scrutiny when one of its authors removed posts related to blogger and sex columnist Violet Blue, although [...]

Posted in Blogging, Data Destruction, Data Retention, Digital Preservation, Internet Archive, Wayback Machine | Tagged Blogging, BoingBoing, Copyright, Data Destruction, Data Retention, Depublication, Digital Preservation, Internet Archive, Publication, Unpublishing, Wayback Machine | Leave a response

This posting will self-destruct in five seconds

By Ira Nathenson on June 21, 2006

As the Internet Archive shows, there is great value in preserving digital information for posterity. But sometimes, there is greater value in destroying information and doing so quickly. Information Week recounts the 2001 incident when an American spy plane was forced to land in Chinese territory after the plane collided with a Chinese [...]

Posted in Data Destruction, Digital Preservation, Internet Archive | Tagged Data Destruction, Data Retention, Data Security, Digital Preservation, Information, Internet Archive

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