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I'm David Rosenthal, and this is a place to discuss the work I'm doing in Digital Preservation.

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2026 37

  1. The Underpants Gnomes' Step 2
  2. Dark GPUs
  3. Crowding Out
  4. Competition For Capital
  5. Downgrades (Updated)
  6. EatingThe Seed Corn (Updated)
  7. Small Is Beautiful (Updated 2x)
  8. Not A Bug But A Feature
  9. 2026 Optical Media Durability Update
  10. More On Robotaxis
  11. Microsoft's Project Silica
  12. Distilling The Moat
  13. Portents Of Doom
  14. The Kelvin Limit
  15. My Introduction To Computer Graphics
  16. Coprophagia Is Bad For You
  17. AI's Affordability Crisis
  18. Chatbots vs. Ozone
  19. Library of Congress Storage Architecture Meeting 2026
  20. AI's PR Problem (Updated)
  21. Wrench Attacks
  22. Talk for Stanford's EE 292J
  23. Flooded Zones Part 2
  24. Flooded Zones Part 1
  25. The Permissionless Catch-22
  26. Dormant Digital Assets
  27. Angels in America
  28. The Handoff Problem (Updated)
  29. Metastablecoin Fragmentation (updated)
  30. Skynet Progress Report (updated)
  31. Tesla's Not-A-Robotaxi Service
  32. The Kessler Syndrome
  33. Mind The GAAP Again
  34. Funding Open Source?
  35. Internet Archive's Storage
  36. Good Questions
  37. Meta: Post #1000

2025 36

  1. Sabotaging Bitcoin
  2. Data Centers In Spaaaace!
  3. Mind The GAAP
  4. Metastablecoins Are Go!
  5. The Bathtub Curve
  6. Depreciation
  7. The Gaslit Asset Class
  8. Hard Disk Unexpectedly Not Dead
  9. Luke 15:7
  10. 2025 Optical Media Durability Update
  11. The Drugs Are Taking Hold
  12. Meta: Slow Blogging Ahead
  13. The Selling Of AI
  14. The Festschrift For Cliff Lynch
  15. Tesla's Robotaxi Revolution!
  16. The State Of Storage
  17. The Back Of The AI Envelope
  18. The $740B Prize
  19. The Dawn Of Nvidia's Technology
  20. Here There Are Blueberries
  21. The Risks Of HODL-ing
  22. Who Is Mining Bitcoin?
  23. Going Out With A Bang
  24. Cliff Lynch RIP
  25. Cliff Lynch's festschrift
  26. Paul Evan Peters Award Lecture
  27. Elon Musk: Threat Or Menace? Part 6
  28. Software Supply Chain Attack
  29. Bitcoin's Fee Spikes
  30. Archival Storage
  31. The Oligopoly Publishers
  32. Software Liability: US vs. EU
  33. On Not Being Immutable
  34. Paul Evan Peters Award
  35. A Prophet Of The Web
  36. Storage Roundup

2024 46

  1. Self-Own
  2. Cherry-picking
  3. Drones
  4. Driver Distraction Technology
  5. Nvidia vs. Intel
  6. 1.5C Here We Come
  7. It Was Ten Years Ago Today
  8. Warning: Slow Blogging Ahead
  9. Dewayne Hendricks RIP
  10. Lie Down WIth Dogs, Get Up WIth Fleas
  11. "Owning" e-books
  12. 2024 Optical Media Durability Update
  13. Astroturfing
  14. Greenwashing
  15. More Cryptocurrency Gaslighting
  16. Matt Levine Explains Cryptocurrency Markets
  17. Accelerated Computing
  18. More On The Halvening
  19. Engineering For The Long Term
  20. X Window System At 40
  21. Blog On Vacation
  22. Video Game Preservation
  23. The Great MEV Heist
  24. One Heck Of A Halvening
  25. Library of Congress: Designing Storage Architectures 2024
  26. "Sufficiently Decentralized"
  27. Pew Research On Link Rot
  28. Fee-Only Bitcoin
  29. Elon Musk: Threat Or Menace? Part 5
  30. The 50th Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop
  31. The Roach Motel Of Banking
  32. Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 4
  33. Decentralized Systems Aren't
  34. The Little Garden
  35. The Left Curve
  36. More On Pig Butchering
  37. Petabit Optical Media?
  38. Microsoft's Archival Storage Research
  39. Competition-proofing
  40. Clouds Over The Mines
  41. Tracing The Pig Butchers
  42. The Stanford Digital Library Project
  43. Criming On The Blockchain
  44. A Lesson Learned
  45. Autonomous Vehicles: Trough of Disillusionment
  46. Good News For Tether

2023 54

  1. Make Up Your Mind
  2. There Is No Planet B: Part 2
  3. Why Worry About Resources?
  4. There Is No Planet B: Part 1
  5. Decentralized Finance Isn't
  6. Desperately Seeking Retail
  7. NDSA Sustainability Excellence Award
  8. Alameda's On-Ramp
  9. Robotaxi Economics
  10. My Old Car
  11. Limited Liability
  12. Shitcoins
  13. Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 3
  14. The Invisible Hand Of The Market
  15. Not "Suffficiently Decentralized"
  16. The Oracle Problem
  17. LOCKSS Program Turns 25
  18. The Bitcoin "Lab Leak" Theory
  19. IOSCO DeFi WG Report
  20. Brief Remarks to IOSCO DeFi WG
  21. Microsoft Keys
  22. Prof. Hilary Allen On Venture Capital
  23. Techno-feudalism
  24. Optical Media Durability Update
  25. Predatory Pricing
  26. Video Game History
  27. This Could Be An Issue
  28. Anti-trust
  29. NY Fed: Metastablecoins
  30. Blog on vacation
  31. The Philosopher of Palo Alto
  32. 2023 Storage Roundup
  33. Code Isn't Law: An Analogy
  34. A Local Large Language Model
  35. Flash Loans
  36. Be Careful What You Vote For
  37. Fractional Reserve Crypto-Banking
  38. Lies, Damned Lies, & A16Z's Statistics
  39. Flooding The Zone With Shit
  40. The Cryptocurrency Use Case
  41. Crypto: My Part In Its Downfall
  42. Red Team Blues
  43. Compute In Storage
  44. How Bubbles Are Blown
  45. Two Great Reads
  46. More Cryptocurrency Gaslighting
  47. C720 Linux Update
  48. On Trusting Trustlessness
  49. The Center For Gaslighting About Blockchains
  50. Sybil Defense
  51. Economic Incentives
  52. Regulatory Capture In Action
  53. Binance's Time In The Barrel
  54. Matt Levine's "The Crypto Story": Postscript

2022 73

  1. Dominoes
  2. Brio-Compatible "Big Boy" Model
  3. The Synchronous Delivery Problem
  4. The Power Of Ethereum's Merge Revisited
  5. Well-Deserved Recognition
  6. Foolish Lenders
  7. The Stablecoin Saga Continued
  8. The Stablecoin Saga
  9. No Actual People Were Harmed In The Making Of This Market
  10. Matt Levine's "The Crypto Story": Part 2
  11. Matt Levine's "The Crypto Story": Part 1
  12. Greater Fool Supply-Chain Crisis
  13. Non-Fungible Token Bubble Lasted 10 Months
  14. A White Swan Event
  15. The Power Of Ethereum's Merge
  16. The "DNA Typewriter"
  17. Piercing The Veil
  18. Responsible Disclosure Policies
  19. Cryptocurrency-enabled Crime
  20. White House Statement On Cryptocurrency Regulation
  21. Miners' Extractable Value
  22. Impossibilities
  23. Investment Frauds
  24. Forking Ethereum
  25. Optical Media Durability Update
  26. The Exchange You Can Trust
  27. Helium
  28. Another Infinite Money Pump
  29. Regulating "Digital Assets"
  30. The Internet Archive's "Long Tail" Program
  31. Mining News
  32. Calls For Cryptocurrency Regulation
  33. Pump-and-Dump Schemes
  34. Economic Model Revived
  35. It's Still Not About The Technology
  36. Are Blockchains Decentralized?
  37. Pseudonymity And Cooperation
  38. Microeconomics Of Cryptocurrencies
  39. Where Did The Number 3 Come From?
  40. Backblaze On Hard Disk Reliability
  41. You Can't Have One Without The Other
  42. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
  43. Cryptocurrency Catch-22
  44. More Metastablecoins
  45. Metastablecoins
  46. Storage Update: Part 3
  47. A "Blockchain Certificate of Deposit"
  48. Probabilistic Fault Tolerance
  49. Fixed Supply, Variable Demand
  50. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust
  51. Meta: Fifteen Years Of Pontification
  52. A Downside Of Privacy
  53. Ethereum Has Issues
  54. Cryptocurrency Weekend
  55. Dangerous Complacency
  56. Vitalik Buterin vs. Reality
  57. Storage Update: Part 2
  58. Storage Update: Part 1
  59. Shadow Banking 2.0
  60. It Was 40 Years Ago Today
  61. Talking Their Book
  62. Inadequate OpSec
  63. Talk For Bace Cybersecurity Institute
  64. EE380 Talk
  65. USA Number 1!
  66. List And Dump Schemes
  67. Izabella Kaminska
  68. Elon Musk, Threat or Menace Part 2
  69. Progress On Storage Class Memory
  70. Mainstream Media Catching On
  71. Another Layer Of Centralization
  72. Counterpoint on Venture Capital
  73. Blockchain Gaslighting

2021 62

  1. DMCA To The Rescue!
  2. Bitcoin vs. Madoff
  3. Progress On DNA Storage
  4. Blatant Self-Promotion
  5. Talk at TTI/Vanguard Conference
  6. Hidden Certificate Authorities
  7. The $65B Prize
  8. I Confess To Right-Clicker-Mentality
  9. Making Sure "Number Go Up"
  10. We Are So Screwed
  11. A Quarter-Century Of Preservation
  12. A Writer I Admire
  13. The Great Mining Migration
  14. Talk At "Blockchain for Business" Conference
  15. Cryptocurrency's Carbon Footprint Underestimated
  16. The Looming Fossil Fuel Crash
  17. Central Bank Digital Currency
  18. MilliCent
  19. Excess Deaths (Updated)
  20. Economies Of Scale
  21. Autonowashing
  22. Optical Media Durability Update
  23. Zittrain On Internet Rot
  24. The Economist On Cryptocurrencies
  25. Stablecoins Part 2
  26. Economics Of Evil Revisited
  27. Yet Another DNA Storage Technique
  28. Alternatives To Proof-of-Work
  29. A Modest Proposal About Ransomware
  30. Intel Did A Boeing
  31. Graphing China's Cryptocurrency Crackdown
  32. Taleb On Cryptocurrency Economics
  33. China's Cryptocurrency Crackdown
  34. DNA Data Storage: A Different Approach
  35. Mining Is Money Transmission (Updated)
  36. Mempool Flooding
  37. Meta: Apology To Commentors
  38. Unreliability At Scale
  39. Unstoppable Code?
  40. Storage Update
  41. Elon Musk Disrupts Cryptocurrencies?
  42. It's The Inequality, Stupid!
  43. Venture Capital Isn't Working: Addendum
  44. Venture Capital Isn't Working
  45. Dogecoin Disrupts Bitcoin!
  46. What Is The Point?
  47. NFTs and Web Archiving
  48. Cryptocurrency's Carbon Footprint
  49. Elon Musk: Threat or Menace?
  50. Internet Archive Storage
  51. Correlated Failures
  52. History Of Window Systems
  53. Principles For The Decentralized Web
  54. Blast Radius
  55. More On Archiving Twitter
  56. Talk At Berkeley's Information Access Seminar
  57. Chromebook Linux Update
  58. Effort Balancing And Rate Limits
  59. ISP Monopolies
  60. The Bitcoin "Price"
  61. Two Million Page Views!
  62. The New Oldweb.today

2020 55

  1. Michael Nelson's Group On Archiving Twitter
  2. Stablecoins
  3. RISC vs. CISC
  4. 737 MAX Ungrounding
  5. I Rest My Case
  6. Storage Media Update
  7. Even More On The Ad Bubble
  8. The Order Flow
  9. The Long Now
  10. Unbanking The Banked
  11. A Note On Blockchains
  12. Liability In The Software Supply Chain
  13. Moxie Marlinspike On Decentralization
  14. Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
  15. Amazon Is Profitable?
  16. Open Source Saturation
  17. Shout-Out To Gutenberg Project
  18. Lack Of Anti-Trust Enforcement
  19. Optical Media Durability: Update
  20. Atlantic Council Report On Software Supply Chains
  21. "Good" News For Bitcoin!
  22. Contextual vs. Behavioral Advertising
  23. After A Decade, HAMR Is Still Nearly Here
  24. Twitter Fails Security 101 Again
  25. Inefficiency Is Good!
  26. Bill Shannon RIP
  27. Deanonymizing Ethereum Users
  28. Breaking: Peer Review Is Broken!
  29. Supporting Open Source Software
  30. "More Is Not Better" Revisited
  31. Informational Capitalism
  32. The Death Of Corporate Research Labs
  33. Economics Of Decentralized Storage
  34. Carl Malamud Wins (Mostly)
  35. Rarely Is The Question Asked
  36. Funder Publishing Platforms
  37. Outsourcing Reduces Productivity
  38. Yay, Library of Congress!
  39. Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste
  40. Archival Cloud Storage Pricing
  41. More On Failures From FAST 2020
  42. Proof-of-Stake In Practice
  43. Enterprise SSD Reliability
  44. Guest Post: Michael Nelson's Response
  45. Falling Research Productivity Revisited
  46. Ludwig Siegele On Data
  47. The Scholarly Record At The Internet Archive
  48. Economic Limits Of Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
  49. More On The Ad Bubble
  50. Meta: Slow Blogging
  51. Regulating Social Media: Part 1
  52. Advertising Is A Bubble
  53. Library of Congress Storage Architecture Meeting
  54. Bitcoin's Lightning Network (updated)
  55. Bunnie Huang's Betrusted Project

2019 66

  1. Web Packaging for Web Archiving
  2. Meta: Blog On Hiatus
  3. 737 MAX: The Case Against Boeing
  4. Seeds Or Code?
  5. Auditing The Integrity Of Multiple Replicas
  6. Academic Publishers As Parasites
  7. Aviation's Groundhog Day
  8. Future of Open Access
  9. MementoMap
  10. Be Careful What You Measure
  11. Nanopore Technology For DNA Storage
  12. Real-Time Gross Settlement
  13. The Data Isn't Yours (updated)
  14. Guest post: Ilya Kreymer's Client-Side Replay Technology
  15. Boeing 737 MAX: Two Competing Views
  16. Promising New Hard Disk Technology
  17. Google's Fenced Garden
  18. Interesting Articles From Usenix
  19. The Optimist's Telescope: Review
  20. SSD vs. HDD (Updated)
  21. Optical Media Durability: Update
  22. A Tribute To Don Waters
  23. Wine on WIndows 10
  24. Emulation as a Service
  25. Blockchain briefing for DoD
  26. Boeing's Corporate Suicide
  27. Carl Malamud's Text Mining Project
  28. Not To Pick On Toyota
  29. The EFF vs. DMCA Section 1201
  30. Finn Brunton's "Digital Cash"
  31. The Web Is A Low-Trust Society
  32. The Risks Of Outsourcing
  33. Lina M. Khan On Structural Separation
  34. Michael Nelson's CNI Keynote: Part 3
  35. HAMR-ing Home My Point
  36. Michael Nelson's CNI Keynote: Part 2
  37. Michael Nelson's CNI Keynote: Part 1
  38. Regulating Cryptocurrencies
  39. Ten Hot Topics
  40. Review Of Data Storage In DNA
  41. Storing Data In Oligopeptides
  42. Immutability FTW!
  43. Demand Is Even Less Insatiable Than It Used To Be
  44. Lets Put Our Money Where Our Ethics Are
  45. Short talk at Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop
  46. Personal Pods and Fatcat
  47. The Demise Of The Digital Preservation Network
  48. What is Amazon?
  49. Digitized Historical Documents
  50. First We Change How People Behave
  51. The 47 Links Mystery
  52. FAST 2019
  53. Cost-Reducing Writing DNA Data
  54. Compression vs. Preservation
  55. It's The Enforcement, Stupid!
  56. It Isn't Just Cryptocurrency Mining
  57. Demand Is Far From Insatiable
  58. Economic Models Of Long-Term Storage
  59. IT Improves Productivity!
  60. Cloud For Preservation
  61. The Economics Of Bitcoin Transactions
  62. Facebook's Catch-22
  63. Blockchain Video and Podcast
  64. Trump's Shutdown Impacts Information Access
  65. Digital Preservation Network Is No More
  66. Trust In Digital Content

2018 96

  1. Securing The Hardware Supply Chain
  2. Meta: Impending Blog Slowdown
  3. Securing The Software Supply Chain
  4. Software Preservation Network
  5. Blockchain: What's Not To Like?
  6. Irina Bolychevsky on Solid
  7. Selective Amnesia
  8. Certificate Transparency
  9. Cryptocurrency Collapse
  10. John Wharton RIP
  11. Cryptocurrencies' Seven Deadly Paradoxes
  12. Kids Today Have No Idea
  13. What's Happening To Storage?
  14. Making PIEs Is Hard
  15. Ithaka's Perspective on Digital Preservation
  16. Controlled Digital Lending
  17. Syndicating Journal Publisher Content
  18. Gini Coefficients Of Cryptocurrencies
  19. Betteridge's Law Violation
  20. Software Heritage Foundation Update
  21. I'm Shocked, Shocked To Find Collusion Going On
  22. Click On The Llama
  23. I Don't Really Want To Stop The Show
  24. Brief Talk At Internet Archive Event
  25. Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
  26. Web Archives As Evidence
  27. Vint Cerf on Traceability
  28. Blockchain Solves Preservation!
  29. What Does Data "Durability" Mean
  30. Chia Network
  31. What Does The Decentralized Web Need?
  32. Lending Emulations?
  33. Triumph Of Greed Over Arithmetic
  34. Optical media durability
  35. The Internet of Torts
  36. The Blockchain Trilemma
  37. Decentralized Web Summit 2018: Quick Takes
  38. Shitcoin And The Lightning Network
  39. Amazon's Margins Again
  40. DINO and IINO
  41. School's out (meta)
  42. Special Report on Decentralizing the Internet (Updated)
  43. Josh Marshall on Facebook
  44. Cryptocurrencies Have Limits
  45. Rate limits
  46. Software Heritage Archive Goes Live
  47. The Four Most Expensive Words in the English Language
  48. No-one could have predicted ...
  49. The Island of Misfit Toys
  50. Cryptographers on Blockchains: Part 2 (updated)
  51. Recreational Bugs
  52. Pie Menus
  53. How Far Is Far Enough?
  54. ASICs and Mining Centralization
  55. Shorter talk at MSST2018
  56. Longer talk at MSST2018
  57. Blockchain for Peer Review
  58. Prof. James Morris: "One Last Lecture"
  59. Might Need Some Work
  60. "Privacy Is No Longer A Social Norm"
  61. Michael Nelson's Fifteen Minutes Of Fame
  62. Cryptographers On Blockchains
  63. All Your Tweets Are Belong To Kannada
  64. Your Tax Dollars At Work
  65. Natural Redundancy
  66. John Perry Barlow RIP
  67. Emulating Stephen Hawking's Voice
  68. Falling Research Productivity
  69. Flash vs. Disk (Again)
  70. Bitcoin: The Future World Currency?
  71. Bad Blockchain Content
  72. Proofs of Space
  73. Pre-publication Peer Review Subtracts Value
  74. Ethics and Archiving the Web
  75. The "Grand Challenges" of Curation and Preservation
  76. Techno-hype part 2.5
  77. Archival Media: Not a Good Business
  78. "Nobody cared about security"
  79. Brief Talk at Video Game Preservation Workshop
  80. Notes from FAST18
  81. Do You Need A Blockchain?
  82. Preserving Government Information
  83. Correlated Cryptojacking
  84. Lessons From Arquivo.pt
  85. Meta: Blog Switched To HTTPS (Updated)
  86. DNA's Niche in the Storage Market
  87. Magical Thinking At The New York Times
  88. Herbert Van de Sompel's Paul Evan Peters Award Lecture
  89. Web Advertising and the Shark, revisited (and updated)
  90. Not Really Decentralized After All
  91. The Internet Society Takes On Digital Preservation
  92. It Isn't About The Technology
  93. The $2B Joke
  94. Digital Preservation Declaration of Shared Values
  95. Meltdown & Spectre
  96. The Box Conspiracy

2017 82

  1. Why Decentralize?
  2. Updating Flash vs. Hard Disk
  3. Science Friday's "File Not Found"
  4. Bad Identifiers
  5. Cliff Lynch's Stewardship in the "Age of Algorithms"
  6. International Digital Preservation Day
  7. Intel's "Management Engine"
  8. Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark?
  9. Techno-hype part 2
  10. Techno-hype part 1
  11. Keynote at Pacific Neighborhood Consortium
  12. Randall Munroe Says It All
  13. Storage Failures In The Field
  14. Preserving Malware
  15. Will HAMR Happen?
  16. Crowdfunding
  17. IPRES 2017
  18. Living With Insecurity
  19. OAIS & Distributed Digital Preservation
  20. Not Whether But When
  21. Web DRM Enables Innovative Business Model
  22. Sustaining Open Resources
  23. Attacking (Users Of) The Wayback Machine
  24. The Internet of Things is Haunted by Demons
  25. Long-Lived Scientific Observations
  26. Josh Marshall on Google
  27. Don't own cryptocurrencies
  28. Recent Comments Widget
  29. Why Is The Web "Centralized"?
  30. Economic Model of Long-Term Storage
  31. Approaching The Physical Limits
  32. Preservation Is Not A Technical Problem
  33. Disk media market update
  34. Decentralized Long-Term Preservation
  35. Initial Coin Offerings
  36. Patting Myself On The Back
  37. Is Decentralized Storage Sustainable?
  38. Archive vs. Ransomware
  39. "to promote the progress of useful Arts"
  40. Wall Street Journal vs. Google
  41. WAC2017: Security Issues for Web Archives
  42. Analysis of Sci-Hub Downloads
  43. Emulation: Windows10 on ARM
  44. Crowd-sourced Peer Review
  45. Public Resource Audits Scholarly Literature
  46. Blockchain as the Infrastructure for Science? (updated)
  47. I'm Doing It Wrong (personal)
  48. "Privacy is dead, get over it" [updated]
  49. Another Class of Blockchain Vulnerabilities
  50. Tape is "archive heroin"
  51. Distill: Is This What Journals Should Look Like?
  52. A decade of blogging
  53. Emularity strikes again!
  54. Bufferbloat
  55. Identifiers: A Double-Edged Sword
  56. The Orphans of Scholarship
  57. Research Access for the 21st Century
  58. Researcher Privacy
  59. EU report on Open Access
  60. Threats to stored data
  61. The Amnesiac Civilization: Part 5
  62. The Amnesiac Civilization: Part 4
  63. SHA1 is dead
  64. The Amnesiac Civilization: Part 3
  65. Dr. Pangloss and Data in DNA
  66. The Amnesiac Civilization: Part 2
  67. The Amnesiac Civilization: Part 1
  68. Notes from FAST17
  69. Injecting Faults in Distributed Storage
  70. Bundled APCs Considered Harmful
  71. Poynder on the Open Access mess
  72. Postel's Law again
  73. RFC 4810
  74. Coronal Mass Ejections (again)
  75. Preservable emulations
  76. Rick Whitt on Digital Preservation
  77. The long tail of non-English science
  78. Gresham's Law
  79. Star Wars Storage Media
  80. Transition (personal)
  81. Error 400: Blogger is Bloggered
  82. Travels with a Chromebook

2016 89

  1. Walking Away From The Table
  2. Reference Rot Is Worse Than You Think
  3. The Medium-Term Prospects for Long-Term Storage Systems
  4. BITAG on the IoT
  5. Talks at the Library of Congress Storage Architecture Meeting
  6. Lurking Malice in the Cloud
  7. Asymmetric Warfare
  8. Fake News
  9. Open Access and Surveillance
  10. More From Mackie-Mason on Gold Open Access
  11. The Exception That Proves The Rule
  12. Fixing broken links in Wikipedia
  13. Updates on the Dyn DDoS
  14. You Were Warned
  15. A Cost-Effective Large LOCKSS Box
  16. Why Did Institutional Repositories Fail?
  17. More Is Not Better
  18. Software Art and Emulation
  19. Software Heritage Foundation
  20. Another Vint Cerf Column
  21. Ru18
  22. Panel on Software Preservation at iPRES
  23. What danah boyd said (personal)
  24. The Things Are Winning
  25. Where Did All Those Bits Go?
  26. Brief Talk at the Storage Architecture Meeting
  27. Nature's DNA storage clickbait
  28. Scary Monsters Under The Bed
  29. Memento at W3C
  30. CrossRef on "fake DOIs"
  31. Fighting the Web Flab
  32. Evanescent Web Archives
  33. Content negotiation and Memento
  34. The 120K BTC Heist
  35. OK, I'm really amazed
  36. Correlated Distraction
  37. A Cost-Effective DIY LOCKSS Box
  38. Cameron Neylon's "Squaring Circles"
  39. End of Moore's Law
  40. The Citation Graph
  41. QLC Flash on the horizon
  42. More on Terms of Service
  43. What is wrong with science?
  44. Talk at JISC/CNI Workshop
  45. The Major Threat is Economic
  46. Glyn Moody on Open Access
  47. The Vienna Principles
  48. Bruce Schneier on the IoT
  49. What took so long?
  50. Decentralized Web Summit
  51. Eric Kaltman on Game Preservation
  52. The Need For Black Hats
  53. He Who Pays The Piper
  54. Abby Smith Rumsey's "When We Are No More"
  55. Randall Munroe on Digital Preservation
  56. Improving e-Journal Ingest (among other things)
  57. Jeffrey MacKie-Mason on Gold Open Access
  58. The Future of Storage
  59. Signal or Noise?
  60. Talk at Seagate
  61. My Web Browser's Terms of Service
  62. How few copies?
  63. The Architecture of Emulation on the Web
  64. Brewster Kahle's "Distributed Web" proposal
  65. The Curious Case of the Outsourced CA
  66. The Amazon Tax
  67. Following Up On The Emulation Report
  68. Long Tien Nguyen & Alan Kay's "Cuneiform" System
  69. The Dawn of DAWN?
  70. Dr. Pangloss loves technology roadmaps
  71. Elsevier and the Streisand Effect
  72. Talk on Evolving the LOCKSS Technology at PASIG
  73. Talk on Private LOCKSS Networks at PASIG
  74. Death of the "free internet"?
  75. The Cloudy Future of Disk Drives
  76. 2016 FAST Conference
  77. 1000 long-tail publishers!
  78. Andrew Orlowski speaks!
  79. Gadarene swine
  80. James Jacobs on Looking Forward
  81. The Malware Museum
  82. Always read the fine print
  83. Emulating Digital Art Works
  84. Bitcoin's Death Spiral
  85. The Internet is for Cats
  86. Guest post: Ilya Kreymer on oldweb.today
  87. Aggregating Web Archives
  88. Why not store it all?
  89. Trade Pacts and Trade Secrets

2015 75

  1. Amy Fry on library collections
  2. Annotation progress from Hypothes.is
  3. Signposting the Scholarly Web
  4. DRM in the IoT
  5. Talk on Emulation at CNI
  6. SSDs: Cheap as Chips?
  7. National Hosting with LOCKSS Technology
  8. You get what you get and you don't get upset
  9. SPARC Author Addendum
  10. Follow-up to the Emulation Report
  11. Cloud computing; Threat or Menace?
  12. Emulation & Virtualization as Preservation Strategies
  13. More interesting numbers from Backblaze
  14. ISO review of OAIS
  15. Storage Technology Roadmaps
  16. Securing WiFi routers
  17. A Pulitzer is no guarantee
  18. Orphan Works "Reform"
  19. Access vs. Control
  20. The Cavalry Shows Up in the IoT War Zone
  21. Two In Two Days
  22. Another good prediction
  23. Pushing back against network effects
  24. Canadian Government Documents
  25. Enhancing the LOCKSS Technology
  26. "The Prostate Cancer of Preservation" Re-examined
  27. Prediction: "Security will be an on-going challenge"
  28. Infrastructure for Emulation
  29. Progress in solid-state memories
  30. Authors breeding like rabbits
  31. Patents considered harmful
  32. Amazon owns the cloud
  33. Be Careful What You Wish For
  34. IIPC Preservation Working Group
  35. Blaming the Victim
  36. Future of Research Libraries
  37. EE380 talk on eBay storage
  38. Alphaville on Bitcoin
  39. Preserving the Ads?
  40. Brief talk at Columbia
  41. Archiving games
  42. Brittle systems
  43. The Panopticon Is Good For You
  44. Time for another IoT rant
  45. Bad incentives in peer-reviewed science
  46. Unrecoverable read errors
  47. How Google Crawls Javascript
  48. A good op-ed on digital preservation
  49. Potemkin Open Access Policies
  50. Amazon's Margins
  51. Max Planck Digital Library on Open Access
  52. Talk at IIPC General Assembly
  53. The Ontario Library Research Cloud
  54. The Maginot Paywall
  55. 3D Flash - not as cheap as chips
  56. Trying to fix the symptoms
  57. The Mystery of the Missing Dataset
  58. Preserving Long-Form Digital Humanities
  59. The Opposite Of LOCKSS
  60. More Is Not Better
  61. Journals Considered Even More Harmful
  62. Google's near-line storage offering
  63. Archiving Storage Tiers
  64. Idcc15
  65. Don't Panic
  66. Using the official Linux overlayfs
  67. Report from FAST15
  68. Vint Cerf's talk at AAAS
  69. The Evanescent Web
  70. It takes longer than it takes
  71. Disk reliability
  72. New Yorker on Web Archiving
  73. A Solution To Everything?
  74. The Miner's Dilemma
  75. Stretching the "peer reviewed" brand until it snaps

2014 68

  1. Crypto-currency as a basis for preservation
  2. Economic Failures of HTTPS
  3. Hardware I/O Virtualization
  4. "Official" Senate CIA Torture Report
  5. Talk at Fall CNI
  6. A Note of Thanks
  7. Henry Newman's Farewell Column
  8. Dutch vs. Elsevier
  9. Steve Hetzler's "Touch Rate" Metric
  10. Talk "Costs: Why Do We Care?"
  11. Andrew Odlyzko Strikes Again
  12. Talk at Storage Valley Supper Club
  13. Five Minutes Of Fame
  14. Gossip protocols: a clarification
  15. First US web page
  16. This is what an emulator should look like
  17. Familiarity Breeds Contempt
  18. Facebook's Warm Storage
  19. Journal "quality"
  20. The Internet of Things
  21. Economies of Scale in Peer-to-Peer Networks
  22. More on Facebook's "Cold Storage"
  23. Plenary Talk at 3rd EUDAT Conference
  24. A Challenge to the Storage Industry
  25. Three Good Reads
  26. Utah State Archives has a problem
  27. Two Sidelights on Short-Termism
  28. Two Brief Updates
  29. Interesting report on Digital Legal Deposit
  30. "Cloud Storage Is Eating The World Alive" Really?
  31. Is This The Dawn of DAWN?
  32. TRAC Audit: Do-It-Yourself Demos
  33. "National Hosting" of archives
  34. TRAC Audit: Lessons
  35. TRAC Audit: Process
  36. Post-Flash Solid State Storage Gets Real-er
  37. TRAC Certification of the CLOCKSS Archive
  38. Coronal Mass Ejections
  39. Discounting the far future
  40. Permacoin
  41. X Window System turns 30
  42. More on long-lived media
  43. Digital New York Times
  44. Rare good news on Intellectual Property
  45. Bezos' Law
  46. DAWN is breaking
  47. Stored safe in the Cloud
  48. Talk at Seagate
  49. Named Data Networking gets major grant
  50. On the Economics of Throwing Stuff Away
  51. Another endowed data service launches
  52. Skeptical about emulation?
  53. Henry Newman on HD vs. SSD Economics
  54. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  55. EverCloud workshop
  56. The Half-Empty Archive
  57. PREMIS & LOCKSS
  58. Krste Asanović Keynote at FAST14
  59. Seagate's Kinetic hard drives
  60. Dan Geer at RSA
  61. Windows XP
  62. Talk at FAST BoF
  63. Worth Reading
  64. Amazon's Q4 2013 Results
  65. Economics of the PC Market
  66. Alex Stamos at EE380
  67. Threat Model for Archives
  68. Implementing DAWN?

2013 67

  1. UK National Archive
  2. Diminishing Returns
  3. The Memory Hole
  4. In-browser emulation
  5. Patio Perspectives at ANADP II: Preserving the Other Half
  6. Estimating Storage Costs
  7. The Bitcoin vulnerability
  8. Fire at Internet Archive
  9. Cloud lock-in
  10. Seagate's Ethernet Hard Drives
  11. Trust in Computer Systems
  12. Special Issue of Science
  13. The Major Threat is Economic
  14. Hybrid Disk Drives
  15. It was fifteen years ago today
  16. End-of-life in the Cloud
  17. Panel at Library of Congress Storage Architectures meeting
  18. Worth reading
  19. Becoming a better scientist
  20. "Preservation at Scale" at iPRES2013
  21. Noteworthy papers at iPRES2013
  22. Talk for "RDF Vocabulary Preservation" at iPres2013
  23. More on storing "all that stuff'
  24. Annotations
  25. Winston Smith Lives!
  26. Bit.ly's Plan Z
  27. Talk at Digital Preservation 2013
  28. Immortal media
  29. The Library of Congress' "Preserving.exe" meeting
  30. Dr. Pangloss and the Road-Maps
  31. Economics of Evil
  32. The Big Deal
  33. Petabyte DVD?
  34. Not trusting cloud storage
  35. Cliff Lynch
  36. Brief talk at ElPub 2013
  37. Maureen Pennock's "Web Archiving" report
  38. How dense can storage get?
  39. A sidelight on "A Petabyte for a Century"
  40. The value that publishers add
  41. Storing "all that stuff"
  42. Talk on LOCKSS Metadata Extraction at IIPC 2013
  43. Talk on Harvesting the Future Web at IIPC2013
  44. Software obsolescence doesn't imply format obsolescence
  45. Moore, Kryder vs. SAW
  46. Making Memento Succesful
  47. It isn't just Kryder's Law
  48. Notes from Spring 2013 CNI
  49. Talk at Spring 2013 CNI
  50. More on Amazon's Margins
  51. Nature special issue on scientific publishing
  52. Preserving personal data
  53. Report on Digital Preservation and Cloud Services
  54. Journals Considered Harmful
  55. Re-thinking Memento Aggregation
  56. Facebook's "Cold Storage"
  57. Kai Li's FAST Keynote
  58. Thoughts from FAST 2013
  59. Amazon's margins
  60. Rothenberg still wrong
  61. DNA as a storage medium
  62. DAWN vs. Twitter
  63. Talk at IDCC2013
  64. Podcast interview from Fall CNI 2012
  65. Moving vs. Copying
  66. How Much Of The Web Is Archived?
  67. Go Library of Congress!

2012 43

  1. Talk at Fall 2012 CNI
  2. Sharing makes Glacier economics even better
  3. Nostalgia
  4. Updating "More on Glacier Pricing"
  5. Updating "Cloud vs. Local Storage Costs"
  6. Bandwidth costs for Cloud Storage
  7. BIts per square inch vs. Dollars per GB
  8. Format Obsolescence In The WIld?
  9. Forcing Frequent Failures
  10. Peak Disk?
  11. Cleaning up the "Formats through tIme" mess
  12. DId The Good Guys Just Win One?
  13. Formats through time
  14. Storage Will Be A Lot Less Free Than It Used To Be
  15. Notes from Desiging Storage Architectures workshop
  16. Talk at "Designing Storage Architectures"
  17. Two New Papers
  18. Correction, please! Thank you!
  19. More on Glacier Pricing
  20. Threat Models For Archives
  21. Re-thinking Storage Technology Replacement Policy
  22. Amazon's Announcement of Glacier
  23. Three Numbers Presage A Crisis
  24. Storage Technology Replacement Policy
  25. Governments Rewriting History
  26. Storage roundup July 2012
  27. Preservation as a Cloud Service
  28. Cloud vs. Local Storage Costs
  29. Storage Technology Update
  30. "Master Class" at Screeing the Future II
  31. Dr. Pangloss' Notes From Dinner
  32. Lets Just Keep Everything Forever In The Cloud
  33. Harvesting and Preserving the Future Web
  34. Catching up
  35. What Is Peer Review For?
  36. Talk at PDA2012
  37. FAST 2012
  38. Cloud Storage Pricing History
  39. Tide Pools and Terrorists
  40. Domain Name Persistence
  41. The 5 Stars of Online Journal Articles
  42. Yahoo's HTML5 Tools
  43. Mass-Market Scholarly Communication Revisted

2011 40

  1. Adding cloud storage to the economic model
  2. CNI Talk on the Economic Model
  3. Progress on the Economic Model of Storage
  4. PLoS Is Not As Lucrative As Elsevier
  5. What Problems Does Open Access Solve?
  6. Seminar at UC Santa Cruz
  7. Do Digital Signatures Assure Long-Term Integrity?
  8. Wiley's Financials
  9. ACM & Copyrights
  10. Preserving Linked Data
  11. Modeling the Economics of Long-Term Storage
  12. Ithaka Does A Good Thing
  13. What's Wrong With Research Communication
  14. Future's So Bright, We Gotta Wear Shades
  15. Moonalice plays Palo Alto
  16. A Brief History of E-Journal Preservation
  17. Rebuttals
  18. Fujitsu agrees with me
  19. Flash more reliable than hard disk?
  20. "Paying for Long-Term Storage" Revisited
  21. More on de-duplicating flash controllers
  22. Library of Congress interview
  23. Solid State Memory for Archival Use
  24. Amazon's Outage
  25. Disk Drive Mergers vs. Kryder's Law
  26. Update on Open Access and NLM's Policy Change
  27. Technologies Don't Die
  28. The New York Times Paywall
  29. Bleak Future of Publishing
  30. How Few Copies?
  31. ACM/IEEE copyright policy
  32. Deduplicating Devices Considered Harmful
  33. Paying for Long-Term Storage
  34. FAST'11
  35. Disk growth
  36. Are We Facing a "Digital Dark Age?"
  37. Threats to preservation
  38. Why Migrate Formats? The Debate Continues
  39. Apology to Safari Users
  40. Memento & the Marketplace for Archiving

2010 17

  1. Migrating Microsoft Formats
  2. The Importance of Discovery in Memento
  3. Rob Sharpe's Case For Format Migration
  4. Machine-Readable Licenses vs. Machine-Readable Rights?
  5. A Puzzling Post From Rob Sharpe
  6. The Half-Life of Digital Formats
  7. The Anonymity of Crowds
  8. Open Access via PubMed Central
  9. Four years ahead of her time
  10. The Future of the Federal Depository Libraries
  11. "Petabyte for a Century" Goes Main-Stream
  12. A Level Playing-Field For Publishers
  13. How Green Is Digital Preservation?
  14. Reinforcing my point
  15. Yet more bad news about disks
  16. JCDL 2010 Keynote
  17. Even more bad news about disks

2009 8

  1. Spring CNI Plenary: The Video
  2. Hard Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  3. Sheila Morrissey's comment
  4. Spring CNI Plenary: The Remix
  5. Spring CNI Plenary
  6. 2009 FAST conference
  7. Postel's Law
  8. Are format specifications important for preservation?

2008 8

  1. Persistence of Poor Peer Reviewing
  2. Foot, meet bullet
  3. More bad news on storage reliability
  4. Lawyers and Mass-Market Scholarly Communication
  5. Does Preserving Context Matter?
  6. How Hard Is "A Petabyte for a Century"?
  7. Digital Preservation for the "Google Generation"
  8. Format Obsolescence: Right Here Right Now?

2007 14

  1. Mass-market scholarly communication revisited
  2. Who's looking after the snowman?
  3. Workshop on Preserving Government Information
  4. Update on Preserving the Record
  5. Sorry for the gap in posting
  6. The Mote In God's Eye
  7. Update to "Petabyte for a Century"
  8. Update on Post-Cancellation Access
  9. Why Preserve E-Journals? To Preserve The Record
  10. Why Preserve E-Journals? Post-Cancellation Access
  11. A Petabyte For A Century
  12. Format Obsolescence: the Prostate Cancer of Preservation
  13. Format Obsolescence: Scenarios
  14. Mass-market scholarly communication