Toronto Mike's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
About ten years ago, while learning HTML and practising the trade with a couple of websites, I had an idea. I called this idea "HyperLists" and I was sure it would take off. HyperLists were simply "Top 10" lists in which each item on the list linked to the most relevant site on the web. Ten years ago there was no Google, no Wikipedia and no blogs. We had search engines, but they...
GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
[GameSetLinks is GameSetWatch's daily link round-up post, culling from hundreds of weblogs and outlets to compile the most interesting longform writing, links, and criticism on the art and culture of video games.] Continuing with the fun and games that is GameSetLinks, we're starting out with Richard Cobbett's look back at the fun that was UK game show Knightmare, something that's pretty beloved of...
DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
In "Internet Archive Dishes up BookServer as Digital Books Market Heats Up," Nancy Herther discusses the recent BookServer announcement and its implications. Here's an excerpt: Using an open architecture and open ebook formats, Kahle and his team intend to see that ebooks are available—for free or a fee—that will work on any device—whether a laptop, PC, smartphone, [...]...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
After the October 24 announcement that the Internet Archive is about to make 1.6 million e-books available free to children with XO Laptops from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, we decided it was time to catch up with OLPC’s founder and chairman, Nicholas Negroponte. The organization has been through drastic changes of late, including [...]
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
HOW THE US GOVERNMENT IS ELIMINATING FREE SPEECH FROM THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE UPDATED : I made an error on this post. I posted that there were no archives for September 11, 2001. I was wrong. I accidentally looked at September 11, 2002. I don't know how I made that mistake. Sorry. The September 11, 2001 Internet Archive for CNN is exactly what you would expect it to be. Back in May of 2008, this...
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
From today's Hansard : Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what methodology was used to reach the decision to refresh his Department's logo in April 2006; which (a) Ministers and (b) officials were involved in that process; and what steps have been taken to monitor the effectiveness of the refreshment. Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department decided there was a need for a...
Shane On The Go (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The venerable old Geocities is no more. Yahoo! finally shut down geocities today. :( Luckily I remembered to backup the last few web pages I still had on geocities yesterday. I think I made my first geocities page in the 90s... well 1999... that is still the 90s. Geocities was cool because it was free. Now if you go here all you get is an error message from Yahoo!. Apparently if you use the Internet...
DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The Internet Archive has made 1.6 million digitized e-books freely available to children who have laptops from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. Read more about it at "Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops." Related Posts Internet Archive Launches BookServer Mining a Million Scanned Books: Linguistic and Structure Analysis, Fast Expanded Search, and Improved...
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Yahoo has officially closed GeoCities on Monday, the free webhosting service got acquired by the search engine over ten years ago for around $3.6 billion in stock but Yahoo failed the develop the service into a profitable business. While a lot of the content was junk, GeoCities is an important piece of web history and it's sad that Yahoo will not keep the content online. Fortunately, some sites like...
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Brewster Kahle of the San Francisco-based Internet Archive (also known as "the Wayback Machine") has announced that all 1.6 million books scanned and digitized by the Archive will soon be available for reading on XO laptops built by the Cambridge, MA-based One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation. I wonder if there is a commercial follow-on product in the works. The One Laptop Per Child Foundation...
Super Tech News / Published News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
We just got back from a showcase at an awesome book festival this evening, where the Internet Archive finished making its 1.6 million digitized books available for use on XOs.Recently we announced a joint Bookserver project with the Archive to help all authors, libraries, and publishers share metadata in a way that can be more easily aggregated and searched. The Archive’s bookserver impleme 11...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
This is really wonderful news. Brewster Kahle, director of the Archive, whose picture appears above, announced this in Boston last week. The entire collection of the Archive has been re-formatted to display on the OLPC in an effort that took over a year of work. These books will be available to the 750,000 to 1 [...]
TikiRobot! (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
After fifteen years, GeoCities is shutting down for good today. The Internet Archive has been working with Yahoo to make sure that the Wayback Machine has a complete, final snapshot of GeoCities before it goes offline. The Archive Team, another archivist group run by Jason Scott of textfiles.com, is also archiving GeoCities. Jason created an under [...]
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
waderoush writes "Brewster Kahle of the San Francisco-based Internet Archive announced today that all 1.6 million books scanned and digitized by the Archive will be available for reading on XO laptops built by the Cambridge, MA-based One Laptop Per Child Foundation. The announcement came during a session on electronic books and electronic publishing at the Boston Book Festival. Kahle said the...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
The Internet Archaeology project is a wonderful collaboration between artists, designers, and tech-minded people around the world, started by an artist named Ryder Ripps in New York. "Essentially we're going through older, overlooked websites and archiving content," says participant Stefan Moore, "But the main difference between this and archive.org is that here, there's a focus on showcasing...
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