A frequent correspondant of mine from the site, 'AA' asked me yesterday about my opinions on using paper versus digital tools for notetaking, writing, and other creative tasks. While I intend to write a pretty full answer to that question, and post it here, I thought you might be interested in a story printed (heh, posted) in SFGate this morning, on the longevity of digital versus paper media, and the tradeoffs archivists are struggling with right now to cement current data for future generations. It's a good read.

An interesting example of overlap between this topic and the paper on education I'm writing is a site offering digitized archives of 19th century schoolbooks, complete with a full text search. One of my favorite examples, from McGuffey's 1879 Fifth Grade Reader, is "How to Tell Bad News."