Category Archives: News

Experiments Day Hackathon 2017

Posted on September 22, 2017 by mek

Join us this Saturday, September 23 @ 10:30am PT for our Experiments Day Hackathon It’s almost that time again — October 11 — the day the Internet Archive invites you to celebrate another year of preserving our cultural heritage and … Continue reading →

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TV news chyron data provide ways to explore breaking news reports & bias

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

Today the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive announces a new way to plumb our TV news collections to see how news stories are reported: data feeds for the news that appears as chyrons on the lower thirds of TV screens.  Our Third Eye … Continue reading →

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MacArthur Foundation’s $100 Million Award Finalists

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Wendy Hanamura

Today, the MacArthur Foundation announced the finalists for its 100&Change competition, awarding a single organization $100 million to solve one of the world’s biggest problems. The Internet Archive’s Open Libraries project, one of eight semifinalists, did not make the cut … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Debt ceiling, hurricane funding, GDP

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

A weekly round up on what’s happening and what we’re seeing at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. Additional research by Robin Chin. In this week’s TV News Archive roundup, we examine the latest Face-o-Matic data … Continue reading →

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Rubbing the Internet Archive

Posted on September 13, 2017 by David Rinehart

In July 2017, Los Angeles-based artist Katie Herzog visited our headquarters in San Francisco and created Rubbing the Internet Archive — a 10-foot high by 84-foot wide rubbing of the exterior of the building, made using rubbing wax on non-fusible interfacing. … Continue reading →

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Face-o-Matic data show Trump dominates – Fox focuses on Pelosi; MSNBC features McConnell

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

For every ten minutes that TV cable news shows featured President Donald Trump’s face on the screen this past summer, the four congressional leaders’ visages were presented  for one minute, according an analysis of Face-o-Matic downloadable, free data fueled by … Continue reading →

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The Internet Archive’s Annual Bash – Come Celebrate With Us!

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Katie Barrett

What’s your personal rabbit hole? 78 rpm recordings? 20th Century women writers? Friendster sites? Vintage software? Educational films from the 50s? Find out at the Internet Archive’s Annual Bash: The Internet Archive invites you to enter our 20th Century Time … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Trump eclipses sun (at least on TV news)

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

A weekly round up on what’s happening and what we’re seeing at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. Additional research by Robin Chin. In this week’s round up, we ask whether the eclipse eclipsed politicians on … Continue reading →

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The Battle to Save Net Neutrality – Please Join Us

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Katie Barrett

Net neutrality, the principle that broadband companies like Comcast and AT&T shouldn’t pick winners and losers on the Internet, is under attack in Washington, DC. The Trump Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing to repeal the strong 2015 net neutrality … Continue reading →

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HyperCard On The Archive (Celebrating 30 Years of HyperCard)

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Jason Scott

On August 11, 1987, Bill Atkinson announced a new product from Apple for the Macintosh; a multimedia, easily programmed system called HyperCard. HyperCard brought into one sharp package the ability for a Macintosh to do interactive documents with calculation, sound, … Continue reading →

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