Pulling Rank: The Legacy of Alexa Internet
Alexa is shutting down and this is an unfortunate loss for the web archiving community, for reasons that are not obvious...
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Silent Selene: Touhou Scoreboard Royalflare Saved!
Maribel Hearn, self-proclaimed nerd and shoot 'em up game enthusiast, has mirrored an archive of the Touhou Project Scoreboard Royalflare (ロイヤルフレア), expected to shut down in January. What is a Touhou? Read on to find out!
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Community Spotlight: URLTeam
URLTeam is an arm of Archive Team, solely dedicated to collecting shortened URLs. Learn more...
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YouTube’s Community Posts are tragically killing the Discussion Tab
A few days ago YouTube announced that millions of channels would gain access to Community Posts next month. Unfortunately, many people have missed the footnote that they are removing the similar Discussion feature which was already available to all channels. Read on to learn more about how this update will affect YouTube!
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This Week in Archiving 09/06/2021
Everything you need to know about the upcoming Google Drive Security Update, and a few pleasant surprises from the Archiving scene to boot!
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This Week in Archiving 08/09/2021
The Institute for Digital Heritage, Heritrix3.4 and Crawling@Home: a project for building the largest image-text dataset, ever!
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Thousands of Classic Winamp Skins on the Internet Archive!
The Winamp Skin Collection, with over 72 thousand community made Winamp skins, is waiting for your viewing pleasure on the Internet Archive!
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This Week in Archiving 08/02/2021
Cinemateca Brasileira archives engulfed in flames, Yahoo Groups archivists are hunting for fandoms and new tools to adapt to a YouTube with far fewer unlisted videos.
Posted inEditorial
YouTube was made for Reuploads
YouTube is a platform and a community which live off of reuploads. With the privating of old unlisted videos, let's re-examine the relationship between YouTube and reuploading.
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This Week In Archiving 07/12/2021
Public Interest crusader and Internet Archive partner Sherwin Siy was reported to have passed on 7 July, 2021, at the age of 40.