On March 23, 1752, the Halifax Gazette told the story of a tragic romance. The author of the short narrative named neither subject, referring only to them as the Officer and the Lady. A short time after they married, the Officer scolded the Lady for being late for dinner, whereupon she downed a bottle of […]
Google Takes LIFE Photo Archive Online
Google said today it is partnering with LIFE magazine to make more than 10 million images available online from the magazine’s photo archive.One of the most interesting things about the project is 97 percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public. The collection contains iconic images from the 20th century with works from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W.Eugene Smith.
Google’s New News Archive
Google announced they’ve expanded their Google News Archive search to now show much more historical newspapers.
Australia Launches Email Archive
An Australian museum is creating Australia’s first email archive to capture a snapshot of Australian society and to celebrate the role email plays in daily communications.
Archive-It Collects Keyword Search
The goals of the Archive-It project, courtesy of the Internet Archive, will be assisted with the addition of keyword search.
Excelsior! Marvel Launches Digital Comic Archive
The comics industry has suffered through years of flagging readership and lower demand for titles, but Marvel may have powered up a way to a resurgence for their work.
BBC Moves Forward With Online Archive, iPlayer
It’s only for a six-month trial period, and it involves just 20,000 people in the UK, but something important has transpired – part of the BBC archive went online. And if everything goes well, we can look for all of that audio and video to become much more widely available.
Internet Archive V. Shell: The Publicity Aftermath
After news of Suzanne Shell’s countersuit against Internet Archive surviving by the thread of one non-dismissed claim – the claim that Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine web crawler was guilty of breach of contract by ignoring the site’s terms of use – hit the cyber circuit, a real catfight hissed and scratched its way across the weekend.
You might call it a "flame war," in the traditional Internet sense, but that’s hardly accurate.
Google – Cultural Digital Archive?
Marc’s The Video Library of Alexandria post on O’Reilly Radar connected a set of dots for me that I can’t believe I never connected on my own.
In that, it certainly seems like an appropriate purchase for Google, much like DejaNews before it.
Internet Archive Open To Art
We worry so much about click-through rates, ad campaigns, and keyword pricing that it’s easy to miss out on the more creative side of what the Internet can offer.