"We've wrestled with high-tech monopolies in the past — IBM, AT&T, Microsoft. The lesson was that such strongholds restrict innovation and competition…The promise of a rich and democratic digital future will be hindered by monopolies." Visit Brewster Kahle in WaPo: How Google Threatens Books
Different archives, different stories. Modeled on the Shoah Foundation's work, the Nabka Archive has 500 video testimonies with Palestinian refugees from over 130 villages. http://www.nakba-archive.org/. Toldot Yisrael http://www.toldotyisrael.org/Site/Home.html has another version of history, also modeled on the Shoah Foundation's work. Visit NYT on the Nabka Archive, Toldot Yisrael
As indeed it should. Easier to deal with the ALA's questions than the DoJ's though. Visit ALA has questions for Google | Shimenawa
There will be no end of argument about quality, but it interesting to see Theora getting more traction; the Internet Archive has standardized on both H.264 and Ogg Theora as access formats. Keeping MPEG LA (and Apple & Microsoft) honest with an open standard like this is a real service, and if Theora wins on [...]
Just wait until this kind of exercise includes lots of video. Two asides: 1. When I worked on privacy software, it became very clear there really were two kinds of people in the world, those that had had a Bad Experience over privacy and those that hadn't yet. Conversations with persons who hadn't had a [...]
This is great, but it is also going to be a challenge to keep the aging equipment going. Time to partner with the Computer History Museum? Visit Nam June Paik Archive Goes to the Smithsonian – NYTimes.com