Monday, March 19, 2012

Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past and MUSE from Stanford Univ.

Again, thanks to the laser eyes of my advisor, Pat Galloway,

Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39917/?p1=A1

I am still digesting the potential impact of this kind of technology on our reflexive use of everyday digital footprints and personal digital archiving. But it is indeed interesting.

MUSE, Stanford University,
http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/muse/
Muse is an open source e-mail archiving tool developed in the Stanford University. I recently had a chance to meet Sudheendra Hangal in the Stanford University, a creator of the Muse -- an outcome of well thought through research in academia.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Afterlife of an Archive

The Afterlife of an Archive
September 26, 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education

My advisor, Pat Galloway, dropped this link in my inbox.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Afterlife-of-an-Archive/124564/

I never get tired of having these interesting stories.