David Mattison is an archivist (retired from active duty), historian and digital culture observer from British Columbia, Canada. His Ten Thousand Year Blog was hosted by WordPress.com between October 02008 and August 7, 02010. The photograph in the header was taken on May 22, 02009 at the Kew Gardens Tube station following a visit to the National Archives, England.
National Archives sign at Kew Gardens Station
2011-01-11
SepiaTown, sharing historic photographs the Web 2.0 way
SepiaTown.com is a new Web site that allows individuals and institutions to share historic photographs the Web 2.0 way, via a Google Maps mashup. According to the site, "The objective of SepiaTown is to map a virtual past by collecting and mapping a vast collection of historical and vintage photographs, prints, film, audio and other media." SepiaTown, Inc. is based in Sunnyside, New York. PCMag.com named SepiaTown one of its Top 100 Web Sites of 2010 in the Undiscovered: Info category.
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