Banjovial.

I like this photograph because the light and image somehow seem to capture the sound of the bluegrass jam at the Atlas Cafe in San Francisco last Thursday. The photograph was taken by Wilfredo Sánchez Vega, and the fellow at the center — the one most in focus, the one for whom the light rays seem to part, the one with, yes, the banjo — is none other than Ben Collins-Sussman, Subversion developer extraordinaire and well-known speaker on topics open-source. He also played a darned good solo that night!
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Wikipudiate?

Surprisingly, the verb “wikipudiate” does not seem to exist yet. At least, a Google search turns up no hits. I

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Responsible Archiving

This Friday I attended a productive and unexpectedly fascinating workshop at UC Berkeley, aimed at developing a model policy for

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Book Purge.

It was time. There were stacks of books sitting on the floor, for lack of space to shelve them. Even

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