"I was in the car with my wife and 15-year-old daughter this morning talking about the future of Facebook and how it's likely that they will not be around forever (or at least not at the same capacity as now) and my daughter asked 'Well, what's going to happen to all of my pictures?' It […]
Excellent article on the BBC's problems with web preservation, along with a useful history lesson about the (unfortunate) re-use of videotape, and the losses that practice caused. Visit Losing Web Sites at the BBC
Richard Wright explains PrestoCentre, Presto projects, and Screening the Future conference to be held March 14-15 in Hilversum. "we are on the brink of creating something that can make a major difference to the amount of broadcasting content, and other audiovisual content, that will survive: the PrestoCentre Competence Centre, to be launched 14-15 March in […]
Nice forward from Kaliya Hamlin, mostly on consumer services to preserve digital legacies.
Nice piece on the demise of Kodachrome. Visit For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas – NYTimes.com
Personal Digital Archiving 2011 will take place February 24-25 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Visit Call for participation for Personal Digital Archiving 2011
Very cool cross cut of by Active Archives of video interview collection by person and by question. Visit Libre Graphics Meeting Q+A
Shades of Sensecam, but as a consumer device: "Small, lightweight, hands-free cameras — worn on a headband, for example, or tucked over an ear — will record life’s memorable moments as they unfold, even if you are busy holding your infant son or erupting in cheers at your daughter’s basketball game." Visit Wearable Cameras Move […]
I'm very curious about the Digital Public Space proposal, and would be grateful for any additional information. <br /> <br /> "Ageh doesn't want to talk about himself. He is in the very early stages of his most significant project yet: one that aims to redesign the internet. After two years analysing the content, framework […]
"IMPACT … will push innovation in OCR technology and language technology for historical document processing and retrieval, and share expertise to build capacity in digitisation across Europe." <br /> <br /> This is a good news. A competence center for book digitization ought to fit nicely with PrestoCentre (which supports moving image collections). And it […]
"Publishers are about to grant Google monopolistic pricing power and permanent exclusivity over countless 'orphaned' works." Yep. Visit Technology Review: Blogs: Mims’s Bits: Why There Can Never Be A Competitor to Google Books
"Unlogo is a web service, FFMPEG plugin, and AfterEffects plugin that eliminates logos and other corporate signage from videos." Nice to see this an option; disturbing to think its use might be required. Visit Unlogo – The Corporate Identity Media Filter by Jeffrey Crouse — Kickstarter
"The producers of the popular CBC radio show Spark have revealed (see the comments) that the public broadcaster has banned programs from using Creative Commons licenced music on podcasts." Visit Michael Geist – CBC Bans Use of Creative Commons Music on Podcasts
For the last few months I’ve been trying to resolve an issue with Dreamhost that causes 500 internal errors to be posted to this site and into the associated RSS feed. As you can tell, I haven’t been successful yet, nor have they, but I’m hoping to get it resolved soon.
The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board released The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age. www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub148abst.html. Excellent work by Sam Brylawski and Rob Bamberger, now being picked up by AP, which notes "New digital recordings of events in U.S. history and early […]
From the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, some nice, straightforward guidance about preserving home movies. Visit Home Media Preservation Guide – TAMI
Why I love television archives #437: embarrassing deep background on political idiots. Visit SLYT – Christine O’Donnell: "I Dabbled Into Witchcraft"
Interesting economic analysis of music industry showing revenue growth going to artists, not labels: "In the same period when the overall revenues of the industry grew by only 4%, the revenue for artists alone more than doubled with an increase of 114%." Visit Artists Make More Money in File-Sharing Age Than Before It | TorrentFreak
Good collection of articles about personal photos and personal memories. Some can be found in pre-print if you need to get around the pay wall. Thanks to Nancy Van House for the link. Visit Special Issue on Photos and Memories
"Towards e-Memories: challenges of capturing, summarising, presenting, understanding, using, and retrieving relevant information from heterogeneous data contained in personal media archives." Thanks to Elizabeth Churchill for the pointer. Visit Proceedings of the ECIR2010 workshop on information access for personal media archives