Update November 2, 2019: /r/datahoarders has launched a dedicated thread for volunteers who want to save Yahoo Groups content: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/dqoa9u/help_us_save_as_many_yahoo_groups_as_possible/ As you may have heard by now, Yahoo Groups is deleting lots […]
Removal of Irish Parliament Debate Videos Sparks Questions: Are We Developing a Distrust of Transcripts?
There’s been a story going around the Irish media in the last few days about the removal of footage of political debates from a Web site. I haven’t seen any coverage of […]
Medieval Music, Censored Japanese Books, French Revolution, More: Tuesday Buzz, July 11, 2017
NEW RESOURCES From Medieval Musicology and translated from French: New Database: +6900 music manuscripts online – MMMOd. “Here is the first version of the database expected and promised for several years: Medieval […]
Covfefe And Confusion: A Quick Way to Save Tweets That Get Deleted
If you woke up this morning and checked social media, you would have noticed that the Internet is on fire with covfefe. The nonsense word came from a tweet that President Trump […]
Do Newspaper Archives Need a “Dead Man’s Switch”?
You might not have heard about this, as the US media seems mostly occupied with covering the US presidential election. But it happened: on March 4th, the Turkish government seized Zaman, the […]
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