Techdirt: ‘Give It Away And Pray’ Isn’t A Business Model… But It Doesn’t Mean That ‘Free’ Doesn’t Work Interesting read on economics of open content. (tags: economics open content opencontent free businessmodel)
Sun Preservation Archive Special Interest Group Good conference! (tags: archiving preservation) Steal This Footage Jamie leads again “Due to time constraints, every documentary uses of only a small portion of the materials collected…This archive is intended to fulfill three objectives. We want to allow those interviewed the time to elaborate their perspectives in mo (tags: [...]
Papers and Publications of the Digital Preservation Testbed at Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands. Mostly for text and email. (tags: archives preservation costs) Digital Information 250 Years From Now – ReadWriteWeb Nice “view with alarm” story. (tags: archives NARA preservation) MediaInfo Mac “MediaInfo Mac can tell you the video and audio codecs used, the settings [...]
The World’s Earliest Television Recordings – Restored! “The Dawn of Television Remembered: – the John Logie Baird Years 1923-1936″ on enhanced-CD (tags: history television video)
NBC, CBS, Fox say Redlasso breaking copyright laws – Yahoo! News It’s not the imagined economic loss, it’s the scrutiny that is painful… (tags: archives news video) future archive (tags: art) APG Open Archive – Critical Practice Chelsea (tags: art archives)
Proposed US ACTA multi-lateral intellectual property trade agreement (2007) – Wikileaks Go, WikiLeaks! (tags: copyright censorship transparency p2p)
Digital Lives Research Project (tags: britishlibrary archives personal)
YouTomb “a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.” (tags: copyright archives youtube chillingeffects)
WIPO International Workshop on Digital Preservation and Copyright, July 15, 2008 Seems uncommonly broadminded of the lion to listen to the sheep talk about the importance of grass. (tags: archiving copyright) Lessig: Little Orphan Artworks Quote: This “reform” would be an amazingly onerous and inefficient change, which would unfairly and unnecessarily burden copyright holders with [...]
KTVU newsman Dennis Richmond weighs anchor after 40 years (tags: news)
A Safe Place to Put a Lifetime of Digital Memories | PutPlace (tags: PersonalArchiving personal archiving lifestreams) Slashdot | NBC Activates Broadcast Flag (tags: drm)
Bill O’Reilly and the Teleprompter Some outtakes are worth keeping. This was taken down from YouTube, but lots of copies keeps stuff safe. (tags: news video youtube) EncryptedBackupsForParanoiacs < TechStdOut < wiki.boum.org (tags: hacks tools) Spectrum Labs Raided by Feds…all 10,000 a/k/a Tommy Chong DVDs Confiscated (tags: censorship civilrights)
BookBlog: Recent Changes Camp: Media and Science progress toward open content (tags: opencontent open content) Preserving Old Movies, At 40 Degrees, Archivists Fight To Save Classic Films By Putting The Chill On Dorothy, Lassie and Scarlett O’Hara – CBS News Archiving made cool… (tags: archiving preservation film) E-LIS – OJS in a Nutshell – Workshop [...]
Rescue Orphan Works! | Public Knowledge (tags: copyright orphanworks) TimeTube Extremely engaging. Assemble timelines of clips from YouTube about any subject. Great for news clips, candidates, issues. (tags: television visualization youtube archives tools timeline) The Virtual Library of Virginia offers access to PBS video resources through InCommon – Internet2 Real Time – Internet2 Wiki (tags: [...]
Is CloudFS the start of a “white box” cloud services market? A lot like S3, 15 cents/GB. A utility that made copies to both automagically would be sweet. (tags: storage s3 hosting cloud)
Internet Archive Wins Civil Lib Case re: National Security Letter The Internet Archive was served a National Security Letter by the FBI demanding information about a patron of the Archive. The Archive fought it with the help of the EFF and ACLU. It won. (tags: archives politics humanrights) OpenCast Project Open House / OpenCast Project [...]
Email Backup Tapes From Start of Iraq War It’s hard to make a good documentary without the facts. (tags: politics archives) Vanderbilt Television News Archive and NBC News Partner to Deliver Streaming Video 8,800 hours of NBC news broadcasts for university subscribers. (tags: news archives) NBC News Launches iCue Good for NBC (and everyone else). [...]
I212 Information and Society Useful syllabus about archiving and digital culture… (tags: archives bibliography PersonalArchiving)
ArchivesNext Blog Excellent site, good voice, worth following. (tags: archives archive library technology)
The Civil Rights Digital Library :: Home Page Go Ruta! (tags: archives video History civilrights)