{"id":689,"date":"2004-11-22T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/11\/22\/lack-of-versioning-texts-on-cd\/"},"modified":"2004-11-22T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T19:42:08","slug":"lack-of-versioning-texts-on-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/11\/22\/lack-of-versioning-texts-on-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of versioning, texts on CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a655'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>This business of <STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.baylys.com:8080\/manila\/jeromesgotchas\">Manila<\/A> <\/STRONG>not storing the history of <STRONG>posts<\/STRONG> is a real shame&#8230; a template bug just blanked a pair of posts.&nbsp;&nbsp; And my local text editor doesn&#8217;t store temporary revisions, so I lost a segment of writing last night in a crash.&nbsp; What is it about <STRONG>tracking revisions<\/STRONG> of text &#8212; an amazingl cheap operation these days &#8211; that is so difficult?&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>What I wanted to say about texts on CD is that the <A href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD\/Download\">German&nbsp;Wikipedia <STRONG>CD<\/STRONG><\/A> &#8212; <EM>shorter, cleaner, and well-cut<\/EM> &#8212; has seen 100k downloads on top of its physical distribution to 30k people, and the CD image has had many times as many downloads.&nbsp; Lovely.&nbsp; And, contrary to <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jkbaumga\/2004\/11\/22#a2516\">popular belief<\/A>, it works on both Windows and Macs.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The company (<A href=\"http:\/\/www.directmedia.ru\/index_en.html\">Directmedia<\/A>) that helped bring this about also publishes titles like &#8220;The Great German Classics&#8221; on CD.&nbsp; A good decade into the Gutenberg Project, why are these publishing houses so unknown?&nbsp; Why can&#8217;t I <STRONG>rattle off <\/STRONG>the name of a major publisher of Classic Literature CDs in English, the way I can say &#8220;<EM>Addison-Wesley<\/EM>, Penguin, <EM>O&#8217;Reilly<\/EM>, Dover, <EM>Springer-Verlag<\/EM>&#8220;?&nbsp; <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This business of Manila not storing the history of posts is a real shame&#8230; a template bug just blanked a pair of posts.&nbsp;&nbsp; And my local text editor doesn&#8217;t store temporary revisions, so I lost a segment of writing last night in a crash.&nbsp; What is it about tracking revisions of text &#8212; an amazingl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-demand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}