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April 13, 2007
Why Digital Literacy is Important: Reason #5,774,201
You may have heard about the recent resignation of Monica Goodling, the former top aide to US Attorney General Alberto Gonazales, who quit amid continuing questions about the US Department of Justice's firings of a group of US Attorneys.
When MSNBC reported on Goodling's resignation, they used this photo:
But they might have chosen to use this photo instead:
The second photo comes from Goodling's law school web page. Come with me (and Wonkette) now to that long-ago age of 1999.
As TBogg notes: "I used to have a much higher opinion of people who went to law school before I started reading the internets."
Thanks to the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine initiative, web pages that went up and then came down can live forever.
And ever. And ever. And ever.
And you thought it was creepy that the nerdy manager at The Gap had seen your Facebook page when you interviewed for a summer position. Imagine what that page will mean to prospective employers in another 8 years.
Personally, while I do hope that Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy can use the Sneate Judiciary Committee to find out what really happened with these firings, I'm much more interested in getting to the bottom of the mysterious "Ron" (if that is his real name) and the "several kidnapping experiences that are best forgotten."
(X-posted to Lives Online)
Posted by reparent at April 13, 2007 1:53 PM