Digital Archivists look to what? (Rhymes with corn, starts with P)

This came from a post to the Museum Computer Network and I had to quote - (carefully removing the word *orn - rhymes with corn, starts with P) that may attrack ugly trackback spam. 

For those of you who did not attend the New Media and Social Symposium about preserving digital art at the Berkeley Art Museum last week, CNet just released an article about it:
"Digital archivists look to *orn, Flash for tips"  The article is much more than its title.

Favorite quote from the list:

Of course, this was picked up by BoingBoing as "Web art archivists look to *orn for guidance." I would like to note that although the topic of looking to the porn industry as leaders in distributed archiving is a clever and interesting model (in my opinion), that particular suggestion was presented in *one or two* sentences near the end of a long day.

Perhaps the other lesson we could learn from the *ornography industry is that in order to increase the visibility of our work, we merely need to invoke the dreaded "P-word"

Comments

[John Powers]

Obsolescence creeps up quickly. An artist friend has pointed out how much of his work is unavailable because the machines to view it aren't common anymore.

He uses Flickr, but retains his copyright. He got a message from Ink Magazine requesting permission to use one of his images with a credit given but no renumeration. It was his first professional image, a portrait of John Lennon used in his high school newspaper around the time of Lennon's murder. Commercial illustration is his business so he declined permission. That image itself was based on a photograph which came with "The White Album" and he noted the irony.

Sorry for the long anecdote, but your treatment of the very confusing territory that digital images opens up is so appreciated. There are many nuances and you don't shy away from pointing them out.

It rhymes with corn, and I was impressed by the point made. I never thought about it that way. I know they're correct about the power of distributed networks. You're smart and good.