Via @jerrymichalski, nice rumination by @dstrom on digital archives Visit Why I love archival research: Lewis Hine and Rushdie « David Strom’s Web Informant
Peter Kaufman on Ogg Theora video on Wikipedia Visit Open Video Coming to Wikipedia | Open Culture
This year's report explores a set of risks that share a potential for wider systemic impact and are strongly linked to a number of significant, long-term trends. Visit Global Risks 2010 – Executive Summary
"When I die my Flickr Pro account will expire and a large percentage of my photos—girlfriends, family, vacations, my dog—will disappear from public view." Visit Raiding Eternity – Myspace – Gizmodo
"This is version 1 of a reconstructed Open Library, and we’re going to keep it “soft” at a special URL until we’re sure it’s stable enough to make the final transition to openlibrary.org." Visit Announcing the Open Library redesign « The Open Library Blog
"Hoffman spent months tracking down bits of footage from collectors on eBay and from uploaders on YouTube. Whenever he made contact with someone who had posted one clip, Hoffman asked them what else they had. When he was done, he took all this material back to the networks—who promptly billed him the per-minute feature film [...]
Good for C-Span. Now they need to hire the folks at Metavid (at least on a contract basis.) Visit C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web – NYTimes.com
Via Peter Kaufman: JISC offers 30K pounds to study / promote research uses of web archives. Deadline 23 March 2010. Visit JISC ITT: Promoting Researcher Engagement with Web Archives : JISC
Excellent insights from Kennisland into the relationship between cultural heritage and ICTs. (in Dutch & English). Visit Kennisland : Publicatie businessmodelinnovatie cultureel erfgoed
The American Library Association will launch its first Preservation Week May 9–15, 2010. Take this opportunity to celebrate collecting and preservation in your community, and to highlight your institution as a source of preservation information.
“A proposal in the draft of the government's imminent broadband plan would create a YouTube-like online archive called Video.gov to preserve agencies' Web content and possibly information provided by the media, an official with the Federal Communications Commission said on Monday.”
Warner Music Group was the party holding copytright on a song that Lessig used in an unarguably fair-use manner. TechDirt is careful not to assume that an actual DMCA takedown notice was issued, on the likelihood that Google's automatic copyright-violation detectors did the deed.
Dispute between Cryptome, and (Network Solutions + Microsoft), who are using copyright for purpses of censorship. Visit Microsoft Online Surveillance Guide – Cryptome Leak | [...] Visit Microsoft Online Surveillance Guide – Cryptome Leak | Geekosystem
Crisp argument about why attempting to control the use of data is a bad idea.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/feedsdeliciouscom/v2/rss/archivaltv/~4/UTCEH874z0k" height="1" width="1" /> Visit ongoing by Tim Bray · Let Your Data Go Visit ongoing by Tim Bray · Let Your Data Go Visit ongoing by Tim Bray · Let Your Data Go Visit ongoing by Tim Bray · [...]
Perhaps Google's hands are tied by DMCA, but beware the ToS: Google is not <br /> a library or archive.< Visit Without Warning, Google Closes Music Blogs; Years Of Archives Gone | paidContent