Wired has two interesting articles up today: Breaking News from the Source and the really fabulous The Dead Formats Society. The first is a little blurb about a company trying to ensure that members of the AP collective get credit for their contributions, the idea being that surfers can be directed to the original source of the "breaking news." The second is about the problem with ever-changing formats, and makes references to folks who I know are very near and dear to many fans of Kairosnews--Derrida being one. Who will be the Tolstoy of Flash, asks the author, knowing that the format may not be around in ten years (I'd say even five?). Indeed. What is art in the age of impermanence? As long as we're dropping names, I'd like to have seen what Hume would've thought about this issue, since one of his main criteria for "taste" was that a work withstand the ravages of time.

I also blogged about this issue in a videogames context here and here.