Twitter in Trouble? Why you should Archive your Tweets
Now is a good time as ever, that we talked about what options you have in archiving or preserving your Twitter content.
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Archive95: The Old Man Internet
The internet is kind of old. To be fair, so is the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine. But IA isn't older than the internet (how could it be?) so…
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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Interview with Hubz of Gaming Alexandria
Interview with Gaming Alexandria admin Hubz on Game Preservation and Scanning
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YouTube Attributions to be removed in September
On August 18, YouTube quietly announced that due to "low usage", they will be removing video attribution pages. One version of the announcement said that this will happen in "early…
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Community Spotlight: Dead Game News
Dead Game News (DGN) is a group dedicated to reporting games which are no longer available to consumers, or which are under the risk of becoming unavailable. Games that are dying or dead, as it were.
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October Status Update on the Save Yahoo Groups! Project
Last Winter when shut down Yahoo Groups there was a major project to rescue data, lead by Archive Team and fandoms who traced their origins to Yahoo Groups. So let's talk about what has transpired since...
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YouTube is hiding Attributions to Fan-Captioners and Translators who wanted to be credited
YouTube no longer lists captioners and translators in the video description, hiding the names of these diligent authors who had asked to be credited...
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[Obsoleted] YouTube removed community translations, but there is a workaround!
Even with YouTube having disabled community contributions, there is a workaround you can use to continue to add new translations on videos!
The Untold Story of why YouTube is removing Community Contributions; YouTube CC History pt. 4
In the later half of the 2010’s YouTube began putting a greater emphasis on international accessibility over accessibility for the deaf. This change in policy, alienated the Deaf Community who began to criticize the increasing inadequacy of closed captions on the website. The ensuing events would bring about the rise and fall of the feature known as community contributions.