Author Archives: Brewster Kahle

Music Analysis Beginnings

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

As mentioned in our recent Building Music Libraries post, we are working with researchers at Columbia University and UPF in Barcelona to run their code on the music collection to help their research and to provide new analyses that could help with … Continue reading →

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Using Docker to Encapsulate Complicated Program is Successful

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive has been using docker in a useful way that is a bit out of the mainstream: to package a command-line binary and its dependencies so we can deploy it on a cluster and use it in the same … Continue reading →

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NYtimes Readers: Try our beta website

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The NYtimes article on us has our beta website address incorrect as archive.org, but please visit archive.org/v2 instead.  

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Building Libraries Together: New Tools for a New Direction

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

(NYtimes on this announcement, video of talks) Let’s work together to save all human knowledge.  Today the Internet Archive is announcing a new beta site and new tools to encourage everyone to lend a hand. We were founded in 1996 … Continue reading →

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Building Music Libraries

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive is working with partners to preserve our musical heritage. The music collections started 8 years ago with the etree.org live music recordings and grew when we started hosting netlabels. Now through new efforts and partnerships we have … Continue reading →

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Please Help Protect Net Neutrality

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

Please stand with the Internet Archive to Protect Net Neutrality by writing to your congressperson.    Today, many organizations are putting “Internet Loading” symbols on their sites to bring awareness to the stakes to those of us that would be … Continue reading →

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Working to Stop Rewriting Copyright Laws via TPP Treaty

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive joined Our Fair Deal along with EFF and Public Knowledge to stop the US from using the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty from changing our copyright laws.   The coalition sent two open letters to TPP negotiators today on critical … Continue reading →

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Bitcoin and the Internet Archive Swag Store

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

San Francisco Weekly said we are the best Bitcoin Evangelists in their BestOf section.   Fun. We now accept bitcoin at our Archive swag store.    We continue to offer bitcoins to our employees as salary, eat sushi for bitcoin next door, … Continue reading →

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Heartbleed bug and the Archive

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

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 Kahle

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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