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Revisiting the same poem every day is the antithesis of the attention economy; instead of scrolling along the surface, I’m diving deep beneath it.
My Secret Weapon Against the Attention Economy
Elliott Holt
In the eighteen-nineties, Moses B. Cotsworth, an Englishman who worked as a statistician for a British railway company, began pondering the possibility of a more efficient calendar, one that would make it easier to compare revenues from month to month and week to week. He devised the International Fixed Calendar, which consisted of thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, with one extra day following the last day of December and one more, at the end of June, in leap years. The new month, between June and July, would be called Sol.
How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
newyorker.com
That’s when I first ran across the idea of the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator or PURL. I noticed that some of the URLs were starting to all have the same hostname purl.fdlp.gov. PURLs were created by Stuart Weibel and Erik Jul at OCLC in 1995, and were picked up by the GPO in 1997 as a way to mitigate broken URLs. The FDLP and GPO are still using PURLs today.
A Bit About PURLs
inkdroid.org
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