 “Fans have helped build it. Bands have supported it. And the Internet Archive has continued to scale it to be able to meet the demand.” @brewsterkahle on the Live Music Archive, now home to >250,000 recordings! https://blog.archive.org/2023/07/31/live-music-archive-collection-now-tops-250000-recordings/ What happens when a bear finds a GoPro? Creator Tom Scott found out & has shared the raw footage on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/grizzly-bear-selfie Watch the full story on Tom's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq4ZkfojSis  @internetarchive uh, is this GoPro doing an end-to-end trip through a bear? I'm pretty sure I don't want to see that. PhD student Spencer Kaplan is an anthropologist of technology. Last summer Kaplan used the Wayback Machine to study trust relationships across the blockchain community on Twitter. What did he learn? Find out in our latest #EmpoweringResearch profile: https://blog.archive.org/2023/07/24/empowering-anthropological-research-in-the-digital-age/ 🎤 We've partnered with Bowling Green State University Music Library & Bill Schurk Sound Archives to preserve a treasure trove of historic 78rpm recordings! 🎵 Read more about this fantastic collaboration & listen in now: blog.archive.org/2023/07/18/bowling-green-state-university-music-library-and-bill-schurk-sound-archives-partners-with-internet-archive/  NEW AT ARCHIVE.ORG: A photo collection of more than 1,400 historic coins from all over the world, dating from 1643 to 2015. Shown here is a Hesse-Cassel 1/24 Thaler from 1788: https://archive.org/details/hesse-cassel-km-529-groschen-1788-df 🪙Explore the full collection: https://archive.org/details/valley-of-coins?&sort=date @internetarchive Neat! For possible code-art-playfulness purposes, is there an easy way to download the full collection of images?  We’re going to court TOMORROW to defend the digital rights of all libraries! Library Futures will be hosting a live blog during oral argument and a live discussion afterwards. Here's how to participate: http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/
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 Brad Bigelow is a fan of overlooked authors & forgotten novels. On NeglectedBooks.com, Bigelow reviews lesser-known books, many of which he finds in our library, in hopes of giving the authors belated exposure & saving all-but-forgotten stories ➡️ http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/13/shedding-new-light-on-forgotten-authors-neglected-books/
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@internetarchive Is this from when you decided to become the pirate bay for currently published works by living authors? It may determine the future of all libraries, but not in the way you're implying. Just thinking about the people who were sad the manga series they read from pirate websites were discontinued. @internetarchive for donations to fight the suit, should we make general donations or is there a specific url/fund to support? As most of you know, our library is being sued by 4 corporate publishers who want to stop the Internet Archive from lending books. The date for oral argument has just been set for March 20. What's at stake? Lia Holland from @team elaborates: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-02-23-statement-major-decision-on-libraries-digital-rights-a-step-closer-on-march-20
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@internetarchive @team I have to ask, when you started making the books in question available for lending, did you follow the proper library procedures, whatever they happen to be? I agree entirely with the aims of the Internet Archive and libraries in general. Having read this statement, I do wonder if the focus on the "greedy maw of Big Publishing" might not be counter-productive in a society (seen from the UK anyway) which seems to prioritise money/wealth over just about everything else. I'm only an outsider looking in, but having had retrospective restrictions placed on my ebooks (I still have a number I've bought and can no longer (...) New post from @brewsterkahle: We have added a Mastodon Server https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/13/we-have-added-a-mastodon-server/
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 Will IA be scraping and archiving peoples' toots without their knowledge and/or consent? |
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle See this, @stevesilberman ?
@internetarchive @brewsterkahle
It is an invaluable resource for #DIY musicians. I have archived lots over there. An old group I was in from #NM has been heard by 10s of thousands more people than it would have been, for instance- ¡para!helion is now known around the globe
https://archive.org/details/Midaq_Alley-6462