Worldchanging: Bright Green: Ik R.I.P. Asks 'What Will Happen to Your Digital Remains' at Mediamatic Amsterdam Mediamatic offers a memento mori sort of perspective on our digital shadows. And it's in their new digs. (tags: PersonalArchiving personal lifestreaming mortality archiving) Computer Data Storage Through the Ages — From Punch Cards to Blu-Ray | Maximum PC [...]
Video: Jon Stewart Goes Howard Beale on CNBC | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD Used to be it was almost impossible to assemble this kind of summary of past news coverage. It's amazing how much worse it looks in retrospect. (tags: news archives propaganda dailyshow predictions television) MediaNotes : improve skills through video-recorded practice [...]
Streamingmedia.com: Advanced Learning: Education Year in Review Overview of people and projects involved in putting university lectures online. (tags: video education podcasting)
Archiving: Webster’s Quotations … – Google Book Search Odd book of quotations about archives. Fun. Charming. (tags: archives quotations)
Magnes – Memory Lab "Memory Lab is an interactive laboratory where you can create a digital album based on your life, on your family’s history, or on that of your organization. In less than an hour, the Magnes will teach you how to record your memories and scan your pictures in order to create a [...]
New on YouTube: Collaborative Annotations – ReadWriteWeb Standards for annotations would be a good thing… (tags: Youtube annotations)
2009 – OAD Terrific list of OA related events. (tags: events conferences calendar OA) Images for the Future: Unlocking Value of Audiovisual Heritage This is a good, crisp summary of the activities of Images for the Future, the largest digitization effort to date in Europe. Well worth reading, especially for the description of the many [...]
Vanderbilt Launches Global Music Archive With Digital Collection of East African Music via ResearchBuzz (tags: archive music)
Many TV stations to end analog on Feb. 17 – Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com (tags: analog television broadcasting) Preservation Guide | Main / PrestoPRIME Notes on PrestoPrime. (tags: archives eu)
RIAA Takes Over DOJ. Copyfight: the politics of IP (tags: copyright politics rights law riaa obama)
Google's New Killer App? Why Are Music Bloggers' Posts Disappearing, and Who Is Deleting Them? More examples of arbitrary takedowns. (tags: copyright google dmca)
Scrapblog Gets A $4 Million Boost For Online Scrapbooking (tags: PersonalArchiving personal scrapbooking) How Would You Feel if Your Flickr Account Were Permanently Deleted? | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection (tags: archives PersonalArchiving photography)
A Tool to Verify Digital Records, Even as Technology Shifts – NYTimes.com Provenance, human rights, and cryptographic hashes. (tags: video digitalpreservation provenance)
Slashdot | Long-Term PC Preservation Project? It seems keeping the hardware is more difficult than keeping the bits (which you can migrate.) (tags: archives preservation)
Launch of the First Lifestreaming Backup Service | Lifestream Blog This looks like a very promising idea. (tags: lifestream archiving) List of Open Source Video Software – Open Video Alliance (tags: tools open video)
The country's new robots.txt file Fortunately, various organizations with interests in preserving history simply ignored the Whitehouse.gov robots.txt file. But this is an interesting change. (tags: robots.txt whitehouse)
diagonal thoughts » Audiovisual Archives in the Age of Access Stoffel Debuysere is arranging workshop in Ghent next month on access, partnerships between commercial and non-commercial organizations, and other issues as part of the BOM-Vl project. (tags: archives access partnerships) Digging Into Data > Home "The idea behind the Digging into Data Challenge is to [...]
IMLS 2006 Public Libraries Survey Report Good stats on public libraries in the U.S. (tags: library IMLS statistics)
Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository – Creative Commons (tags: creative_commons news)
Pocket Knowledge (BETA) "PocketKnowledge is an on-line digital archive that allows users to store and retrieve their own personally-authored materials." (tags: PersonalArchiving tools services)