Internet Archive Forums: News http://webdev.archive.org/iathreads/forum-display.php?forum=news The most recent posts from the IA forum: News en-us info@archive.org Tue, 21 May 2013 03:04:29 UTC Why Bitcoiners Believe In The Digital Currency http://webdev.archive.org/post/931400 Fri, 10 May 2013 22:15:18 UTC After a week of living on the crypto-currency, Forbes reporter Kashmir Hill invites Bitcoin enthusiasts to a dinner meet-up to help her spend the rest of her digital wallet and share their views on th...

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 Living On Bitcoin For A Week: Bitcoin Is The Internet Applied To Money (And I Survived It) http://webdev.archive.org/post/931226 Wed, 08 May 2013 17:56:00 UTC Day 7. Monday is the last day of Bitcoin living and it’s off to an exhausting start. Read full <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/05/07/living-on-bitcoin-for-a-week-bitcoin-is...

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 You Didn’t Ask For it: Trademark Owner Tries to Invade Public Domain http://webdev.archive.org/post/930998 Mon, 06 May 2013 17:06:30 UTC It’s a tried and true principle that once a work enters the public domain, absent an act of Congress, it stays there. Read full <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/you-didnt-ask-it-trad...

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 Bay Area bitcoin users intrigued, but cautious http://webdev.archive.org/post/930570 Wed, 01 May 2013 16:45:44 UTC Bitcoin is billed as a free, electronic, anonymous way to send money instantly around the globe, a virtual currency that no government or entity can control. But if you talk to bitcoin enthusiasts in ...

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 Nonprofit Pays Staff in Bitcoin http://webdev.archive.org/post/930569 Wed, 01 May 2013 16:44:22 UTC Would the staff of your nonprofit agree to be paid in bitcoins? One third of the staff at the nonprofit Internet Archive took founder Brewster Kahle up on that offer, agreeing to take $100 or $200 of ...

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 Brewster Kahle: Preserving All the World's Knowlege http://webdev.archive.org/post/930321 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:22:04 UTC Tour Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive near San Francisco, and be sure not to miss the “terra cotta archivists” in their pews! Kahle, with this “Library of Alexandria 2.0,” is not just digit...

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 Brewster's trillions: Internet Archive strives to keep web history alive http://webdev.archive.org/post/930267 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:12:55 UTC In an era of information overload and ephemera, where an online sensation may last all of five minutes, word is spreading that the internet has a memory, and its name is not Google. Read full text: ...

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 Jason Scott's Archive Team Is Saving The Web From Itself http://webdev.archive.org/post/928993 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:27:00 UTC On Feb. 15, the Archive Team, a loose collective of programmers and netizens, received its equivalent of a 911 call: Read full text: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/jason-scott-ar...

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 Down the digital rabbit hole http://webdev.archive.org/post/928970 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:59:30 UTC Though sometimes mistaken for a Grateful Dead database, the Internet Archive is truly a universal digital library for the masses. Read full text: <a href="http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/down-...

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 Bitcoin is the coolest thing you’ve never heard of http://webdev.archive.org/post/561711 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:38:39 UTC Read Full Text <a href="http://medillmoneymavens.com/2013/03/13/bitcoin-is-the-coolest-thing-youve-never-heard-of/" rel="nofollow"> text </a>

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 Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive http://webdev.archive.org/post/437421 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:42:48 UTC Brewster Kahle was a 19-year-old computer science student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when a friend posed a simple, yet life-changing question: "What can you do with your life that is...

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 Google and US publishers reach settlement over book scanning, though authors’ suit remains http://webdev.archive.org/post/435627 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:41:39 UTC MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Google and U.S. publishers have settled a long-standing dispute over Google’s book-scanning project. Read full text: <a href="http://www.therecord.com/news/business/artic...

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 Internet Archive houses all TV news since 2009 http://webdev.archive.org/post/434191 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:40:17 UTC The massive resource has digitized millions of books and tried to collect everything published on every Internet web page for the last 15 years—that's more than 150 billion pages. Read full text: ...

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 Internet Archive collects, streams TV news archives http://webdev.archive.org/post/433768 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:39:19 UTC Most people use the Internet Archive to find out what the Web once looked like. Read full text: <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010062/internet-archive-collects-streams-tv-news-archives.ht...

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 Seagate Helps Preserve Internet's Past http://webdev.archive.org/post/433553 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:49:48 UTC Seagate Barracuda hard drives help enable the Internet Archive’s popular Wayback Machine, which lets users browse 160 billion web pages going back to 1996. Read full text: <a href="http://www.seaga...

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 All the TV News Since 2009, on One Web Site http://webdev.archive.org/post/433546 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:23:38 UTC Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads. Read ...

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 Internet Archive Launches TV News http://webdev.archive.org/post/433545 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:17:12 UTC The Internet Archive just launched a new archive of TV News Search &amp; Borrow that promises to be a valuable tool for researchers both in and out of the classroom. Read full text: <a href="https://...

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 Internet Pioneer, Former Banker Behind Newest Credit Union http://webdev.archive.org/post/432158 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:54:37 UTC An Internet trailblazer and former banking executive are the unusual pair behind the chartering and eventual launch of the newest federally chartered credit union. Read full text: <a href="http://ww...

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 Internet Archive Turns Up the Speed With BitTorrent http://webdev.archive.org/post/430982 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:44:28 UTC On Aug. 7, 2012, the Internet Archive gave peer-to-peer file sharing a major boost by making more than 1 million books, movies, and other media immediately available as “torrents” from BitTorrent ...

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 Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth http://webdev.archive.org/post/430638 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:07:58 UTC Here’s the problem with libraries. Read full text: <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/brewster-kahle/all/" rel="nofollow"> text </a>

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 Internet Archive serves up 1.4 million BitTorrent downloads http://webdev.archive.org/post/429372 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:07:40 UTC The Internet Archive, a non-profit online library dedicated to the permanent preservation of information in digital form, has made nearly a petabyte of materials available via the controversial BitTor...

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 Internet Archive founder pops into Victoria http://webdev.archive.org/post/424233 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:19:46 UTC Brewster Kahle is the type of person we all should admire - he's highly intelligent, energetic, passionate, motivated and, above all, determined to improve the world by giving more information to more...

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 Saving books in a digital age http://webdev.archive.org/post/422071 Wed, 30 May 2012 17:45:00 UTC John Blackstone takes us to meet the "Book Keeper," an Internet entrepreneur determined to preserve one copy of every book ever published. Watch full video: <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watc...

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 Patt Morrison Asks: The Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle http://webdev.archive.org/post/422069 Wed, 30 May 2012 17:35:31 UTC Brewster Kahle has the gleeful air of a man who has just found something wonderful and wants to tell his friends all about it. Read full text: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/...

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 The Internet Gets a Hall of Fame (Including Al Gore!) http://webdev.archive.org/post/422066 Wed, 30 May 2012 17:16:51 UTC GENEVA, Switzerland — The best revolutionaries eventually find themselves hailed in tributes and enshrined in museums. Read entire text: <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/isoc-hall-of...

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 E-books may take a page out of digital music's book http://webdev.archive.org/post/422064 Wed, 30 May 2012 17:11:39 UTC On Friday, an association of e-book publishers—including major companies such as Harper Collins, Random House, and Barnes &amp; Noble—issued a statement suggesting an outline for a new “Lightwei...

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 Application Development: The Internet Hall of Fame Part 2: They Built the World Wide Web http://webdev.archive.org/post/422063 Wed, 30 May 2012 17:06:07 UTC The Internet Society named 33 Hall of Fame inductees last month, grouped as Pioneers, Innovators and Global Connectors, who helped make the Internet what it is today. Read the entire article at: <a h...

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 Anti-SOPA rally in San Francisco http://webdev.archive.org/post/422062 Wed, 30 May 2012 16:55:50 UTC A rally against anti-piracy legislation being considered by Congress was held at the San Francisco Civic Center Jan. 18, 2012. Angel investor Ron Conway, Internet Archive co-founder Brewster Kahle and...

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 In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books http://webdev.archive.org/post/421984 Tue, 29 May 2012 22:45:07 UTC In a wooden warehouse in this industrial suburb, the 20th century is being stored in case of digital disaster. Read the entire article at: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/technology/inter...

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 Many Libraries http://webdev.archive.org/post/421983 Tue, 29 May 2012 22:31:40 UTC The Internet has put universal access to knowledge within our grasp. Now we need to put all of the world's literature online. This is easier to do than it might seem, if we resist the impulse to centr...

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 Archive chronicles TV's take on 9/11 http://webdev.archive.org/post/391839 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:17:38 UTC It's a time few may want to remember. But TV news reports of the September 11, 2001, attacks -- the innocuous moments before, and the horrible hours and days after -- are now archived online for anyon...

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 Archiving every book ever published http://webdev.archive.org/post/388166 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:15:25 UTC It sounds like something out of a Borjes story, but Brewster Kahle is trying to build an archive that includes a copy -- a print copy -- of every book ever published. Read the entire article at: <...

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 US scholar brings ancient Balinese scripts to digital age http://webdev.archive.org/post/343535 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:20:54 UTC US scholar brings ancient Balinese scripts to digital age Ni Komang Erviani, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar | Fri, 01/14/2011 10:23 AM | Bali A theatre professor from Wesleyan University in New York, Ro...

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 At ALA Midwinter, Brewster Kahle, Librarians Ponder The E-book Future (Publisher's Weekly) http://webdev.archive.org/post/342076 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:16:10 UTC "At ALA Midwinter, Brewster Kahle, Librarians Ponder The E-book Future" by Andrew Albanese "From research and pilot programs, digitization efforts and financial support for vendors, libraries have h...

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 Libraries Have a Novel Idea Lenders Join Forces to Let Patrons Check Out Digital Scans of Shelved Book Collections (Wall Street Journal) http://webdev.archive.org/post/315016 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:28:28 UTC "By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER "SAN FRANCISCO—Libraries are expanding e-book offerings with out-of-print editions, part of a broader effort to expand borrowing privileges in the Internet Age that could cha...

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 A field trip to the Internet Archive (Washington Post) http://webdev.archive.org/post/306986 Wed, 19 May 2010 16:34:31 UTC <b>Faster Forward</b> by Rob Pegoraro A field trip to the Internet Archive "SAN FRANCISCO -- Many people think of the Internet Archive only as the home of the Wayback Machine, the site that lets yo...

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 Washington Post: "Project puts 1M books online for blind, dyslexic" http://webdev.archive.org/post/305587 Thu, 06 May 2010 20:57:48 UTC "SAN FRANCISCO -- Even as audio versions of best-sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are blind or dysle...

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 Sherwood middle school students participate in nationwide program to archive Web sites http://webdev.archive.org/post/294307 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:41:40 UTC "Sherwood middle school students are creating a 21st century version of a time capsule, though there won't be any shovels or digging involved. "Instead, this group of about 10 students from Sherwood ...

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 URL shorteners working with Internet Archive for long-term preservation http://webdev.archive.org/post/273961 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:40:04 UTC Subject: URL shorteners working with Internet Archive for long-term preservation Date: November 11, 2009 The Internet Archive and founding companies announce today the launch of 301Works.org, a s...

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 Planets and galaxies, with a score by Debussy (LA Times) http://webdev.archive.org/post/291022 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:20:30 UTC "To the plaintive chords of Claude Debussy's 'Claire de Lune,' a series of celestial bodies appear to waft by as if in a lethargic dance, suspended both in time and gravity..." Read more at: http://...

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 CERN Library Publishes Its Book Catalog as Open Data http://webdev.archive.org/post/289811 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:39:05 UTC "Librarians are, in general, very favorable to the principles of Open Access. But surprisingly few libraries have so far set free the data they produce themselves. As one of the first scientific libra...

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 Space on your phone (msnbc) http://webdev.archive.org/post/289600 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:45:15 UTC "Mobile devices such as Apple's iPad, announced this week, are providing new ways to see the crown jewels of space science: glorious views from the frontiers of the universe. However, getting to the g...

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 2009's best nerdy-wordy websites (Boston.com) http://webdev.archive.org/post/283655 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:09:54 UTC http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/28/2009s_best_nerdy_wordy_websites/ This post was modified by ARossi on 2009-12-30 01:09:54

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 Cornell University Library Partners with the Internet Archive http://webdev.archive.org/post/281887 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:59:23 UTC "In an effort to make its materials globally accessible, Cornell University Library is sharing tens of thousands of digitized books with the Internet Archive..." Read more at: http://www.resourceshe...

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 Shortcovers Adds 1.8 Million Titles Through Internet Archive's BookServer Project http://webdev.archive.org/post/281324 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:40:43 UTC "Shortcovers by Indigo Books &amp; Music, Inc. (TSX:IDG), a leading global eBook service, today announced that 1.8 million additional titles from the Internet Archive will be made available free of ch...

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 Now Available: MOBI Versions for Most of The Internet Archives 1.8 Million Books http://webdev.archive.org/post/281328 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:48:05 UTC Read more at: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/11/now-available-mobi-versions-for-most-of-the-internet-archives-1-8-million-books/

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 New project in scramble to save vanishing internet links (Times Online) http://webdev.archive.org/post/280401 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:01:08 UTC "What if, the next time you went on the internet, you clicked on a link and nothing happened?" Read more at: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6947344.ece

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 Efforts underway to ensure no shortlink rots (ZDNet Asia) http://webdev.archive.org/post/279262 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:08:22 UTC "Web sites that use Universal Resource Locators (URL) shortening services risk losing page ranks and links to their content and could be forced to replace all shortened URLs, if companies offerings s...

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 Trying to Save the Web's Shortcuts (Wall Street Journal) http://webdev.archive.org/post/276817 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:37:09 UTC "The Internet Archive and more than 20 Web companies are banding together to preserve the historical records of the abbreviated Internet addresses that are passed around on services such as Twitter......

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 Internet Archive Dishes up BookServer as Digital Books Market Heats Up http://webdev.archive.org/post/272424 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:36:14 UTC http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Internet-Archive-Dishes-up-BookServer-as-Digital-Books-Market-Heats-Up-57760.asp

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