Info 202 Fall 2011

I saw these two articles via
nytimes.com both pertaining to interesting implementations of
archives that give new life to events long past. The first article
discussed Fugazi's endeavors to make available all their live
performances from their entire career. Apparently the band are great
documentarians and obsessively recorded every live performance they

Historypin, a collaboration between Google and the nonprofit We Are What We Do, is a dedicated space for people to build collections of photos and narratives throughout history. Photos are uploaded, credited, and contextualized (on the right side) and give different (or more flattened) perspectives of historical events, eras, and people. The site leverages a Google Maps API to crowdsource and present location data.