Category Archives: News

Internet Archive awarded grant from Arcadia Fund to digitize university press collections

Posted on May 21, 2018 by chrisfreeland

Internet Archive has received a $1 million dollar grant from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to digitize titles from university press collections to make them available via controlled digital lending.  The project, Unlocking … Continue reading →

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Benefit Concert for Internet Archive featuring Moonalice – June 30, 2018

Posted on May 21, 2018 by jeff kaplan

We always appreciate donations to support the Internet Archive. So we figured why not make it fun as well and have a benefit concert. Roger McNamee is a good friend of the Archive. His awesome band Moonalice will be headlining. SF Airship … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Six takeaways from adding Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama & more to Face-o-Matic facial detection

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Nancy Watzman

A round up on what’s happening at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. This week we release new data generated by our Face-o-Matic tool, developed in collaboration with Matroid, adding to our list of public figures … Continue reading →

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The Future of Civil Discourse – Four Scenarios Imagined

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Katie Barrett

by Katie Barrett and Lawrence Wilkinson Looking 10 years ahead, try and imagine a world without trust, but rife with monopolies. Walled gardens of tech giants solidify. The DOW and Nasdaq are up, civic engagement is low, surveillance is ubiquitous. … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive Meets Pineapple Fund’s $1M Challenge

Posted on May 1, 2018 by David Fox

As the days wound down and our April 30 deadline drew near, supporters of the Internet Archive rallied to help us raise $1 million—the amount the Pineapple Fund pledged to match. Today, we are happy to announce: We Made It!  … Continue reading →

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Spam Faxes and the Wonders of Ephemera

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Jason Scott

In 2002, a father in the UK gathered up a pile of fax paper from his fax machine and took it home. Was he looking at some treasured writings and gathered cultural touchstones and wanted to preserve them? No, he … Continue reading →

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Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Chris Butler

Some recent press stories (1, 2) have discussed archived blog posts of a prominent journalist, Joy Ann Reid, in the Wayback Machine and her claims that some of these posts were “manipulated” by an “unknown, external party”. This past December, … Continue reading →

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SAVE THE DATE: Decentralized Web Summit 2018

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Wendy Hanamura

In 2016, an early group of builders, policymakers, journalists and archivists gathered at the Internet Archive for the first Decentralized Web Summit to “Lock the Web Open” for good. A lot has happened since then! Today more than ever before, we understand … Continue reading →

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Highlights from the Tribute to Cyberspace Philosopher, John Perry Barlow

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Caitlin Olson

by Lisa Rein On April 7, 2018, more than 500 people gathered at the Internet Archive for a symposium on the life and work of John Perry Barlow. The program included talks, discussions and Q & A sessions with many … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code 2018: Thank you Google and welcome students!

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Mark Graham

The Internet Archive is grateful to Google for running their “Google Summer of Code” (GSoC) program, providing support for students and open source projects. This year the GSoC will support 5 students to work with the Internet Archive on the … Continue reading →

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