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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
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Like so many other words we use, bricking means different things. According to Wikipedia, “the word ‘brick’, when used in reference to consumer electronics, describes an electronic device such as a mobile device, game console, or router that, due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage, can no longer function”. That article goes on to draw distinction between a hard and soft brick, both of which cover a multitude of causes and consequences.
Explainer: The ‘Bricked’ Mac
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At one level, the ethic of efficacy is the ethic that governs the use of news as currency. But if we sort of put that aside for a minute, it is an ethic that I think emerges in an era where the classic business models of the news industry no longer apply.
The 'Alternate Ethics' of Chinese Journalism - China Media Project
chinamediaproject.org
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