It could just be my failure to understand the importance of others in terms of posterity, but do we ever stop and ask ourselves if we spend too much time creating nifty archives? Sure, my stuff that I post here should indeed be lost, in fact, it should be magically deleted one day. Others should not have to endure the pain of my hastily crafted prose. But what about people like Dave Winer? I know of no other person on the web who keeps an archive like he does. The man is the most important figure in terms of a multitude of web standards, and is the father of the blog in my eyes. He’s an incredible inspiration to someone like me. Scripting News is one of the finest blogs on the web, and I enjoy his musings very much ; however, is it really that important that Winer makes an archive of the links he posts on twitter? I’m not sure, just putting it out there.