[kwlug-disc] Age of Persuasion

[Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account)]

On Tuesday 02 March 2010 01:05:49 am Chris Frey wrote:
> Not sure how legal sharing the MP3's would be, but lately I've taken
> to transcribing the interviews that I want to share.  Takes a lot less
> space, easier to share, and takes people less time to read than to
> listen to a half hour podcast.

Yeah but it's a real problem to listen to them in the car. :-)

> But don't trust the web to archive things for you.  If it's so good that
> you know you will need it in the future, archive it yourself.  If it
> disappears in the future, then Richard Stallman's argument that sharing
> is less evil than hoarding starts making some sense.

A-MEN. I have CDs that are 10 years old that hold all kinds of weird stuff that 
I've grabbed off the Internet because I was concerned they'd be gone. Sure 
enough, they are, but a lot of it I don't even know I have... It's amazing 
what you find super-important at one instant in time has fallen into obscurity 
the next.

-A.