For any of you who are snowed in or otherwise looking for interesting reading, The Atlantic has a brief piece about the Preserving Virtual Worlds Project, featuring Matt Kirschenbaum and Kari Kraus. The second link is from an online New York Times debate about whether school libraries still need books, featuring Matt Kirschenbaum as one of five respondents.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201003/archiving-video-games
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/do-school-libraries-need-books/