-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- X on Archive and ALA brief filed in Warrantless Cell Phone Search Case
- Lionel on Archive and ALA brief filed in Warrantless Cell Phone Search Case
- Tom Pugh on Archive and ALA brief filed in Warrantless Cell Phone Search Case
- Tyler on Wayback/WABAC Movie Party, March 7th at 5pm
- What? Me Wurie? | Simple Justice on Archive and ALA brief filed in Warrantless Cell Phone Search Case
Categories
Archives
Meta
Author Archives: brewster
Software Wanted: Political TV Commercial Detection and Naming
Volunteers needed: We have a fabulous TV collection, and the US is going into an election period. We would like to pull out the TV Commercials, including the political ads, and match them with the other occurrences, and then put … Continue reading
Posted in News
4 Comments
Short Video of Brewster Kahle on Bitcoin by Forbes
Forbes did a followup on its “Living on Bitcoin for a Week” and interviewed Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive and the Internet Credit Union. http://www.forbes.com/video/3058744760001/ (on the archive)
Posted in News
Comments Off
Public Access to the Public Domain: Copyright Week
It’s Copyright Week, and many organizations are highlighting the need to make works in the public domain readily accessible. One of the many challenges we face sounds almost paradoxical: works in the public domain are often not publicly available. The … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, News
3 Comments
Servers for the New Year: Thank you!
Year-end donations went past our goal of $1 million (almost $1.3m !) – thank you all for donating. With this money we can buy the ten racks (10 petabytes, 10,000,000,000,000,000bytes) of server space to store the upcoming books music … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, News
16 Comments
Dreams Reflected in Bitcoin
Love the dreamers– they make life worth living. Right now many are looking into bitcoin and seeing their dreams in the reflection. And like all things bitcoin, this is playing out in public view, so we see other’s hopes and … Continue reading
Magazine in movie “WarGames” is discovered using an Internet Archive Collection
An intrepid researcher wanted to figure out what magazine was used in movie WarGames and using the Internet Archive collection found it was Creative Computing. (which was a key magazine for me in the 70′s when I sold … Continue reading
Posted in Software Archive
1 Comment
Start of Community Wireless Backbone in Richmond CA
With the cooperation of the City of Richmond (thank you!), a group of volunteers and Internet Archive staff are starting to set up backbone repeaters in Richmond California to build a Community Wireless network. Here is Colyer Dupont showing a … Continue reading
Posted in News
2 Comments
Let the Robots Read! A Victory for Fair Use
A resounding judgement in the Google Books case means that the act of digitizing books is not in-and-of-itself infringing. In legal-speak, the judge ruled that digitizing books is “fair”. This is a big deal in that it allows … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, News
1 Comment
Birthday of the Defensive Patent License: Friday, Nov 15, 4:30-8:00 in SF
(Video of event) Please join us to celebrate the birthday of the Defensive Patent License (“DPL”)! Short Program and Birthday Party Friday, November 15, 2013 Panel Discussion 4:30-6:00 PM Reception 6:00-8:00 PM Internet Archive 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements
1 Comment
Fire Update: Lost Many Cameras, 20 Boxes. No One Hurt.
As fires go, we were lucky. We are still assessing what happened but this is where we stand: * No one was hurt. * Lost a 130 sq meter side-building (1300 sq feet) that held scanning equipment. We operate 30 … Continue reading
Please Come: Aaron Swartz Reception at the Internet Archive Fri Nov 8th in SF
(CNET Article) On November 8th from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm, you are invited to a reception, talks, and hackathon at the Internet Archive 300 Funston Ave, in San Francisco. Suggested donation of $5, Bitcoin accepted. 5PM Hackathon 6:30PM Reception … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, News
2 Comments
Reader Privacy at the Internet Archive
(NYTimes article, Video of Announcement with Daniel Ellsberg) The Internet Archive has extended our reader privacy protections by making the site encrypted by default. Visitors to archive.org and openlibrary.org will https unless they try to use http. For several years, … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, News
9 Comments
Celebrate at the Internet Archive — 1024 — Thursday Oct. 24th
(Full Video of event. Announcement as posts: 1, 2, and 3) Internet Archive invites you to a fun evening in San Francisco on October 24th for our once-a-year celebration and announcements of new services. (And it just so happens to … Continue reading
Blacked Out Government Websites Available Through Wayback Machine
(from the Internet Archive’s Archive-it group: Announcing the first ever Archive-It US Government Shutdown Notice Awards! ) Congress has caused the U.S. federal government to shut down and important websites have gone dark. Fortunately, we have the Wayback Machine to … Continue reading
How to use the Virtual Machine for Researchers
Some researchers that are working with the Internet Archive, such as those at University of Massachusetts, have wanted closer access to some of our collections. We are learning how to support this type of “on-campus” use of the collections. This … Continue reading
Cost to Store All US Phonecalls Made in a Year in Cloud Storage so it could be Datamined
(Cited in Forbes) Because of recent news reports, I wanted to cross check the cost feasibility of the NSA’s recording all of the US phonecalls and processing them. These estimates show only $27M in capital cost, and $2M in electricity … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, News
49 Comments
National Security Agency ❤ ❤ ❤ Internet Archive?
An unclassified document from the National Security Agency from 2007 has some nice words to say about the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, and the Wayback Machine. “The Wayback Machine is, very simply, one of the greatest deep web tools ever … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, News
35 Comments
Brewster Kahle to be Honored with 2013 Amer Lib Assoc LITA/Library Hi Tech Award
Brewster Kahle is honored to receive the 2013 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology this year. It will be awarded at the American Library Association meeting in Chicago in June. http://www.ala.org/news/pr?id=13005
Posted in Announcements, News
2 Comments
Free and Fast ‘Roof2Roof’ Internet Available in Richmond, CA
As a free service to Richmond residents, the Internet Archive has installed a 70 foot tower on its physical archive building in Richmond California to offer free and fast Internet to those with roofs that can see the tower. Those … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, News
18 Comments
Archive of Historical Computer Software is here
Thanks to Jason Scott, lots of deep collecting communities, and volunteers, Jason is announcing that the Internet Archive now hosts some very large software and computer documentation collections, maybe the largest overall host. Yippie! Now we all have to make … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Software Archive
11 Comments
