permastore

[Reed Hedges <reed@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I was excited by the addition of a notice to Xanadu.com announcing plans 
for running a Permastore for the WWW.

One thing I have noticed recently is that much of the most informative 
content on the WWW is on school servers (colleges, universities, even 
high school and lower), and of course as soon as the owner of the 
account graduates/leaves, the account is closed and that content is 
gone. There are tons of broken links that used to point to students' 
(and faculty's) old personal web pages.

And the incredibly short half life of WWW pages in general -- especially 
personal pages, but also newspapers and other big companies that for 
some reason re-organize their whole site system every few years or 
moths -- is very distressing.

So
	1. What are some ideas we could come up with for helping school and 
university students and employees in particular (as one of the more 
prolific subsets of web publishers, and creators of fairly quality 
stuff)  make more permanent web pages?
	2. Is Xanadu.com's permastore project going anywhere?

reed

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Reed Hedges
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