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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Stuck in the Desert, or Video Strike Team
This is an interview with Sokar, of the Video Strike Team, conducted over IRC. The VST is an archival group of a rather small scope: preserving a particular stream, Desert…
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All TechnologyGuide Forums shutting down January 31
The TechnologyGuide network will shut down on January 31! NotebookReview.com, TabletPCReview.com and more!
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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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Help Archive Team Archive public Google Drive files before September 13!
On September 13, Google is going to start requiring longer URLs to access many Google Drive files, breaking links to public files across the web unless users opt out! Because…
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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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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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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!