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Gnome Press was a US small press running from 1948 to 1962. Edited by Martin Greenberg (an “outright crook” according to Asimov), Gnome published early hardcovers of many pulp era authors, like Howard, Heinlein, Asimov (who never saw a dime for the Gnome edition of the Foundation Trilogy), Van Vogt, and so on. Several notable fen and pros worked for Gnome: Andre Norton, L. Sprague deCamp (Gnome was where he got his start on rewriting the Conan opus), and David Kyle, who was best known, perhaps, for doing the Conan maps. Earl Kemp’s eI47 has a brief history of Gnome, along with a check list of the 86 titles and ephemera, as well as scans. It’s the last chapter in Earl’s Anthem series of articles on early SF small presses.

As an aside, Martin Greenberg is not to be confused with Martin Henry Greenberg, who had a long and fruitful professional relationship with Asimov. The latter wrote a humorous bit about his confusing the two.

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Zeldman frets about the preservation of personal web material, which usually disappears once the hosting bill goes unpaid. He has an idea:

A suggestion for a business. Sooner or later, some hosting company is going to figure out that it can provide a service and make a killing (as it were) by offering ten-, twenty-, and hundred-year packets of posthumous hosting.

A hundred years is not eternity, but you are not Shakespeare, and it’s a start.

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The Internet is the most powerful communication medium ever, but we’ve chosen to give up some of that power to get it for free. It’s still the most powerful medium, even with the power reduced, but (this is very important) eventually we’ll use it up, and be stuck without the ability to communicate at all, if we don’t change. And further, we won’t know how we got there, because the record won’t survive. 

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