Posted inWeekly Summary
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!
Posted inNews
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…
Posted inWeekly Summary
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!
Posted inTutorial
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!
Posted inWeekly Summary
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 inNews
Log into your Account: Mediafire to Purge Inactive Users!
Mediafire's new policy is to remove files on accounts inactive for longer than 8 months! Log into your accounts and mirror your stuff!
Posted inCommunity Spotlight
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.
Posted inNews
Search for Sound: A New Feature on Internet Archive
If you've been browsing the Internet Archive recently, you might have noticed a new search option called "Search radio transcripts". You can now search through radio broadcasts as if looking…
Posted inCommunity Spotlight
Community Spotlight: IIPC
The International Internet Preservation Consortium is an organization dedicated to the preservation of historically and culturally significant websites.
Posted inHistory
The Funny Story of how Blogspot India was held for Ransom
Blogs might not be as popular as they were a decade ago, but I like to think that in some ways blogs are timeless. Now, imagine waking up one day…