I just subscribed to the brand new archiving resource Footnote.com.
If you're interested in sleuthing through history, this site will give you access to millions of images of original source documents, many of which have never been on the web before. Even more importantly, it's interactive.
You might find a lot of the currently archived material uninteresting, but like all Web 2.0 participatory media, the ramifications and impacts of this kind of software will be amazing. The collaborative nature of wikis continues to tear down the boundaries that have made knowledge proprietary.
For those of us with that odd and peculiar drive to research, Footnote.com promises to be a regular link. Dead Sea Scrolls here I come.
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