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| Poster: | JeromeM573 | Date: | Sep 11, 2023 5:07pm |
| Forum: | forums | Subject: | Internet Archive and Jason Scott featured in Reason magazine's October 2023 issue |
I found this interesting article from Jesse Walker titled The Pirate Preservationists on October 2023 issue of Reason magazine and it mentioned IA and even Jason Scott.
So, I found that it contained Jason Scott's 2021 tweet from Twitter (now X):
Google is a Library the same way a Supermarket is a Food Museum, It should be treated as a pleasant/easy distribution point for videos, but they shift their rules and make choices with no input from the world.
And, of course, there's the good news at the end of Jess' article:
The good news is that so many people have now joined the preservation fight, either deliberately or accidentally: The more distributed the effort, the less brittle and more resilient it will be. Like those music-swapping networks of the '90s, this web of preservationists is neither entirely online nor entirely offline. That's good too: If physical copies let you hang onto something when a stream is altered or removed, digital copies let you almost costlessly save and transmit items that otherwise would be scarce. I don't know the best way to keep our collective cultural archive alive, but I'm pretty sure it will involve an intricate interplay between the physical and the digital, not just one or the other.
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| Poster: | ZotTheAvenger | Date: | Oct 15, 2023 5:10pm |
| Forum: | forums | Subject: | Re: Internet Archive and Jason Scott featured in Reason magazine's October 2023 issue |
I truly am SICK of preservationists getting maligned as nothing more than "file-swappers" that sometimes misuse/abuse copyrights, which anyone that cares about the loss of data, knows is a narrow minded, and rude way label people/look at things. Moderating terabytes of uploads would take any organization time, I.A. MUST be faster than most, and is why I have been flagging any junk I find, lately.
The internet is rapidly changing at such a rate (deleted/updated content), i immediately backup my documentation for any/all technical things hard&/or soft, before it gets taken down in favor of the new version (that I probably can't afford and won't have.)
I understand the warc (Web Archive format) is old, didn't Standford kinda have something to do with it's inception? Regardless, the Archive is still the best, and always has been, at archiving the internet (Wayback Machine) and remaining user friendly, open, and powerful/modern/quick.
-JJ
