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The Fake News Attack on the U.S. Census
A lot has been written about “fake news” in the last few months. Too much of that writing has (IMHO) muddled the differences between just-plain-lies and everything else that divides the country at the moment. But the basic issue of politicians who distort the truth because they are more interested in the zero-sum game of […]
The Shame of Bad Digitizations
In a recent thread on the Govdoc-l mailing list about a Congressional Publications Hub (or “pub hub” — more of the thread here), one commenter said that The American Memory project’s digital surrogates of the pre-Congressional Record publications "probably aren’t salvageable" because the TIFFs were captured at 300 ppi resolution and then converted to 2-bit […]
House Republicans’ plan to permanently cripple government
The first thing the new Republican-led Congress did was attempt to kill the Office of Congressional Ethics — thankfully the public uproar forced them to withdraw the plan *for now*. Now Congress is set to put into place a terrible new law called Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act (REINS Act). This […]
PBS NewsHour: Internet Archive and the fragility of Internet history
PBS NewsHour recently ran this very good piece on the fragility of Internet information and what the Internet Archive is doing about it. This is a good short piece that succinctly explains why in the digital age lots of copies are necessary to keep information safe. And the corollary to lots of copies is that […]
Attend the FGI virtual EOT seed nomination sprint. Help make and preserve .gov history!
If you’ve been waiting for your chance to make history: now’s the time! Please join us for the FGI virtual End of Term Project Web archiving nomination sprint on Wednesday 11 January 2017 from 9AM – 11AM Pacific / 12 noon – 2PM EST. During that time, We’ll set up a virtual conference room, give […]
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