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Weekly Summary 03/02/2020
Get ready to dramatically throw off your coats, and say "welcome" to spring! As a wise man once said: "Spring is the time of plans and projects", everyone (including us…
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Weekly Summary 02/24/2020
This week was rather calm, with mostly positive developments. A quick update on the Bethesda forums from last week: The shutdown has been rescheduled to March 9th, so that's 2…
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Weekly Summary 02/17/2020
The focus of this week is a new Archiving Project on documenting information around us about the recent Coronavirus outbreak. The Internet Archive and the IIPC are working together to…
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Weekly Summary 02/10/2020
The main event this week has been recovery efforts following the fire that broke out near the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) back in January. MOCA is deeply saddened…
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Weekly Summary 02/03/2020
A warm welcome to a cold February! This week we have some updates on Yahoo Groups, and a couple of shutdowns. We recently passed the deadline for the shutdown of…
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Saving Private Groups: This Time the Mission is the Fan
In a little more than 24 hours Yahoo Groups will be biting the dust, if you were once a member of a community or perhaps own and/or know an owner…
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Weekly Summary 01/27/2020
2020 is both the start of a new decade, but it also concluded the previous one. Perhaps now is a good time as ever to be reflecting on how things…
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Weekly Summary 01/20/2020
This will be our very first weekly summary, part of a series where we talk about recent developments in the archiving community. Since this is our first one, we're going…
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Hey there
Hey there,I'm the mad programer, though I do go by many names online. As one of the founders of the blog I might as well give you all a short…
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The Data Horde : Origins
From behind the mountain, beckons a dark specter Stretching thinly as it grows ever closer The people are overrun with fright and terror Yet the army to liberate them draws…