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Internet preservation: what do we do now?
I’m at the International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly and Conference this week in beautiful Reykjavik, Iceland. Follow the flow of the conversation from the #IIPCga16 and #IIPCwac16 twitter hashtags. Here are a few pieces of the week that have especially hit me as important: The technologies and tools to collect, preserve and use Web […]
Politwoops archive of politicians’ deleted tweets uploaded to Internet Archive
In August, 2015, Twitter shut down the Politwoops service and its sister site Diplotwoops that tracked politicians’ deleted tweets. Twitter revoked access to its API for all Politwoops sites in 30 countries around the world, citing terms of service violations. In a move to preserve all of those deleted tweets, Open State has uploaded its […]
FCC Chair Tom Wheeler: “How We Will Preserve Net Neutrality”
Behold the Power of Participation; Regulation comments make a difference. FCC Chair Tom Wheeler writing in Wired After more than a decade of debate and a record-setting proceeding that attracted nearly 4 million public comments, the time to settle the Net Neutrality question has arrived. This week, I will circulate to the members of the […]
“What the Web said yesterday” and IRC chat on digital collection development
The New Yorker has an interesting piece by Jill Lapore, “What the Web Said Yesterday” which explores the issue of internet preservation and highlights the important work being done by the Internet Archive. Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, says we need “digital vellum” or the “twenty-first century will become an informational black hole.” […]
Lunchtime listen: will we suffer from collective “Digital Amnesia?” Are we already?!
“Digital Amnesia”! is a 45 min. video about the Internet Archive, the [[Library of Alexandria]], the longnow foundation, and the [[Royal Tropical Institute]], a Dutch government library that the government closed (all the books went to alexandria!). Some very nice sentiments here about the continuing importance of libraries to preserving both paper and digital information […]
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