This is a bit of an older story, but I was reading over this news story recently and it struck a nerve with the archivist in me, particularly since it's similar to the topic I was writing for my archiving class essay.

When looking at digital archiving, it's always surprised me how much digital records get dismissed as not being "real" records; it somehow seems many people feel the same way, since the White House for awhile successfully carried out a program of deleting e-mails because digital content is supposedly inherently unarchival. (See articles on "Armstrong v. Executive of the President" to get an idea of how a couple of administrations almost made it practice to completely discard all e-mail.) It makes me wonder, now that we're moving into a digital culture, just how much material is going to be lost forever because no one thinks it's worth saving.