[Air-L] public/private [part 1 of 2]

[Lois Ann Scheidt]

And don't forget archiving, that a publicly accessible webpage is 
likely to be archived in the Internet Archive 
(http://www.archive.org/index.php) or as some of us old Saturday 
Morning Cartoon watchers like to call it...The Wayback Machine.

Lois Ann Scheidt

Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana
University, Bloomington IN USA

Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and
IUPUC, Columbus IN USA

Webpage:  http://www.loisscheidt.com
Blog:  http://www.professional-lurker.com


Quoting Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>:

> I would advise you to remove your blogs then because it is very
> likely that if it is linked to anywhere or hosted on a major blogging
> platform that it is in one of the research compediums of blogs.  if
> we can find it through google blogsearch or technorati, then it is
> likely it is in one or more research collections.
>
> it is not that you are putting up a window...   it is that you are
> sending out broadsheets and posters on the fence, on the side of your
> house, probably into public mailboxes, etc. etc..   i don't have to
> look into the window to see what you've done, i can take photos from
> the street, comment on the architecture, etc.  If i
>
> a disclaimer won't really solve your issue either, it might be
> respected, but only if you do it in a machine readable way.  a
> robot.txt file excluding all search engines will go much farther than
> a disclaimer.