South By Southwest Conference Session: Digital Preservation and Blogs Bickner, Carrie; Greenberg, Josh; Headley, Alison; Linksaver, Mike; Wells, Colin sxsw; conference; festival; austin; texas; music; film; interactive; art; blog; community; convergence; parties; clubs; theaters; bands; films; websites; competition; awards; ceremony; registrants; business; industry; know- how; musicians; artists; downtown; event; live music; recording; records; contracts; labels; marketing; advertisement; sponsorship; opportunities; mp3; ogg; vorbis; audio; download; stream How will tomorrow's historians understand the development and impact of blogs? What evidence will future researchers turn to when they want to examine the influence that blogs had on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, or how a blog post disgraced 60 Minutes by revealing that what was believed by Dan Rather to be a legitimate memo about George W. Bush's military service was a forgery? What primary source material will show that it was a blogger who filed a Freedom of Information Act request and posted 361 snapshots of coffins of solders killed in the US war in Iraq?The emergence of the early web, and of blogging, stands to be like early film; if the preservation of blogs does not begin soon, most of the initial output of this new medium and genre will be lost, and future understanding will be limited to the scraps that survive.This fall, a group of students in the Library and Information School at Pratt worked on a small project to preserve a handful of blogs. Join us as we discuss the technical, social and legal problems posed by this endeavor. South By Southwest, Inc. 2006-03-13 SOund text/html; charset=utf-8 15757 bytes audio/mp3 http://player.sxsw.com/2006/podcasts/SXSW06.INT.20060313.Di gitalPreservationAndBlogs.mp3 Digital Preservation and Blogs, http://player.sxsw.com/2006/podcasts/SXSW06.INT.20060313.Di gitalPreservationAndBlogs.mp3 En IsPartOf http://2005.sxsw.com North America Copyright 1995-2006 South By Southwest, Inc.