Author Archives: brewster

Heartbleed bug and the Archive

Posted on April 9, 2014 by brewster

Bottom line: The Internet Archive is safe to use. Internet Archive has always been interested in protecting the privacy of our patrons. We try not to record IP addresses, and when Edward Snowden showed that traffic going over the open … Continue reading →

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Software Wanted: Political TV Commercial Detection and Naming

Posted on January 20, 2014 by brewster

Volunteers needed: We have a fabulous TV collection, and the US is going into an election period. We would like to pull out the TV Commercials, including the political ads, and match them with the other occurrences, and then put … Continue reading →

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Short Video of Brewster Kahle on Bitcoin by Forbes

Posted on January 16, 2014 by brewster

Forbes did a followup on its “Living on Bitcoin for a Week” and interviewed Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive and the Internet Credit Union. http://www.forbes.com/video/3058744760001/ (on the archive)

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Public Access to the Public Domain: Copyright Week

Posted on January 14, 2014 by brewster

It’s Copyright Week, and many organizations are highlighting the need to make works in the public domain readily accessible. One of the many challenges we face sounds almost paradoxical: works in the public domain are often not publicly available. The … Continue reading →

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Servers for the New Year: Thank you!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by brewster

Year-end donations went past our goal of $1 million (almost $1.3m !) – thank you all for donating. With this money we can buy the ten racks (10 petabytes, 10,000,000,000,000,000bytes) of server space to store the upcoming books music … Continue reading →

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Dreams Reflected in Bitcoin

Posted on December 25, 2013 by brewster

Love the dreamers– they make life worth living. Right now many are looking into bitcoin and seeing their dreams in the reflection. And like all things bitcoin, this is playing out in public view, so we see other’s hopes and … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged bitcoin | 1 Comment

Magazine in movie “WarGames” is discovered using an Internet Archive Collection

Posted on December 19, 2013 by brewster

An intrepid researcher wanted to figure out what magazine was used in movie WarGames and using the Internet Archive collection found it was Creative Computing. (which was a key magazine for me in the 70′s when I sold … Continue reading →

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Start of Community Wireless Backbone in Richmond CA

Posted on November 23, 2013 by brewster

With the cooperation of the City of Richmond (thank you!), a group of volunteers and Internet Archive staff are starting to set up backbone repeaters in Richmond California to build a Community Wireless network. Here is Colyer Dupont showing a … Continue reading →

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Let the Robots Read! A Victory for Fair Use

Posted on November 16, 2013 by brewster

A resounding judgement in the Google Books case means that the act of digitizing books is not in-and-of-itself infringing. In legal-speak, the judge ruled that digitizing books is “fair”. This is a big deal in that it allows … Continue reading →

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Birthday of the Defensive Patent License: Friday, Nov 15, 4:30-8:00 in SF

Posted on November 13, 2013 by brewster

(Video of event) Please join us to celebrate the birthday of the Defensive Patent License (“DPL”)! Short Program and Birthday Party Friday, November 15, 2013 Panel Discussion 4:30-6:00 PM Reception 6:00-8:00 PM Internet Archive 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, … Continue reading →

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Fire Update: Lost Many Cameras, 20 Boxes. No One Hurt.

Posted on November 6, 2013 by brewster

As fires go, we were lucky. We are still assessing what happened but this is where we stand: * No one was hurt. * Lost a 130 sq meter side-building (1300 sq feet) that held scanning equipment. We operate 30 … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | Tagged Scanning Center Fire | 124 Comments

Please Come: Aaron Swartz Reception at the Internet Archive Fri Nov 8th in SF

Posted on November 5, 2013 by brewster

(CNET Article) On November 8th from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm, you are invited to a reception, talks, and hackathon at the Internet Archive 300 Funston Ave, in San Francisco. Suggested donation of $5, Bitcoin accepted. 5PM Hackathon 6:30PM Reception … Continue reading →

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Reader Privacy at the Internet Archive

Posted on October 25, 2013 by brewster

(NYTimes article, Video of Announcement with Daniel Ellsberg) The Internet Archive has extended our reader privacy protections by making the site encrypted by default. Visitors to archive.org and openlibrary.org will https unless they try to use http. For several years, … Continue reading →

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Celebrate at the Internet Archive — 1024 — Thursday Oct. 24th

Posted on October 2, 2013 by brewster

(Full Video of event. Announcement as posts: 1, 2, and 3) Internet Archive invites you to a fun evening in San Francisco on October 24th for our once-a-year celebration and announcements of new services. (And it just so happens to … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged celebration | 27 Comments

Blacked Out Government Websites Available Through Wayback Machine

Posted on October 2, 2013 by brewster

(from the Internet Archive’s Archive-it group: Announcing the first ever Archive-It US Government Shutdown Notice Awards! ) Congress has caused the U.S. federal government to shut down and important websites have gone dark. Fortunately, we have the Wayback Machine to … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News, Wayback Machine | Tagged blackout, Wayback Machine | 32 Comments

How to use the Virtual Machine for Researchers

Posted on July 4, 2013 by brewster

Some researchers that are working with the Internet Archive, such as those at University of Massachusetts, have wanted closer access to some of our collections. We are learning how to support this type of “on-campus” use of the collections. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Technical | Tagged documentation | 2 Comments

Cost to Store All US Phonecalls Made in a Year in Cloud Storage so it could be Datamined

Posted on June 15, 2013 by brewster

(Cited in Forbes) Because of recent news reports, I wanted to cross check the cost feasibility of the NSA’s recording all of the US phonecalls and processing them. These estimates show only $27M in capital cost, and $2M in electricity … Continue reading →

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National Security Agency ❤ ❤ ❤ Internet Archive?

Posted on May 18, 2013 by brewster

An unclassified document from the National Security Agency from 2007 has some nice words to say about the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, and the Wayback Machine. “The Wayback Machine is, very simply, one of the greatest deep web tools ever … Continue reading →

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Brewster Kahle to be Honored with 2013 Amer Lib Assoc LITA/Library Hi Tech Award

Posted on May 10, 2013 by brewster

Brewster Kahle is honored to receive the 2013 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology this year. It will be awarded at the American Library Association meeting in Chicago in June. http://www.ala.org/news/pr?id=13005