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The Wayback Mission: Mark Graham on Preserving the Past with the Internet Archive No Way Out · Episode

Check out the No Way Out podcast interview with Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It’s a must-listen for anyone eager to understand how web archiving works & why it matters.

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#digitalpreservation #archives @mark.bsky.social

Introducing Public Collections in Browsertrix • Webrecorder Blog Now you can curate, personalize, and share all your your crawls in one place.

Today we’re introducing Public Collections on Browsertrix, a new feature that lets you personalize, curate, and showcase your archives with the world. Read more on our blog webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...

#WebArchiving #Browsertrix

New blog post: Tightrope - an iPRES 2024 trip report https://anjackson.net/2025/01/05/tightrope/ #DigiPres #iPRES2024

Screenshot of the liiive application dashboard.

📢 Update for everyone testing #liiive, my work-in-progress #IIIF collaboration tool: The app is now on its official production backend, and I’ve enabled permanent storage—1 room per user. Drop a manifest. Annotate together. Let me know what you think!

Dear friends, I'm rejoining Redis. It's a long story, so it deserved a blog post to explain all the details: antirez.com/news/144

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

Edmund Gordon · His Galactic Centrifuge: Ballard’s Enthusiasms J.G. Ballard was consistent in saying that his imagery came from deep within himself – until it crossed a certain...

"Malcolm Bradbury claimed that with Empire of the Sun ‘Ballard became an important mainstream novelist,’ and went on to compare him to Ian McEwan and Iain Banks – intending that as praise."

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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book cover Library Catalogues as Data: Research, Practice and Usage - bright squares and circles

New book/cover! Should be out early 2025... with @semames.bsky.social & Paul Gooding. "Library Catalogues as Data: Research, Practice and Usage". Commisioned cover by Lucy Havens, based on data viz of Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice lucyhavens.myportfolio.com/legacies-of-...

Archived your Twitter data and don't know what to do with it? Here's a few simple steps to read it using DuckDB (duh!)

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Gli oggetti digitali del catalogo SBN literarymachin.es/sbn-digital/
Utilizzando le API ho catturato i record del catalogo #SBN di cui è disponibile l'oggetto digitale. Alcune prime analisi e criticità incontrate.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there...

Big news: I'm working with @chris.blue on a second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications! An early release of the first 3 chapters is now available: learning.oreilly.com/library/view... (O'Reilly Learning subscribers only at this point) and we're hoping to finish it next year.

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Our Digital Media Platform Will Revolutionize News and Is Also Shutting Down “The Messenger, a digital media company that launched less than a year ago, has shut down following multiple reports that it was set to do so.” — ...

this gave me flashbacks www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

other networks "Other Networks" is a cluster of projects headed up by Dr. Lori Emerson and Dr. libi striegl that document and experiment with networks outside of what's now called "the internet." We are invested in ...

what a day! after sitting on a domain for #othernetworks since about 2017, today we are officially launching a (modest...) website to collect all Other Networks related events, workshops, recipes for building your own networks (BYON!), and even an asynchronous book club! othernetworks.net

I think one figure is always missing from your daily statistics: more than 20,000 Palestinians killed.
Israel is doing terrible and atrocious things, be honest.

JG Ballard classic poster prints - James Marsh JG Ballard Cover-Art Poster-Prints as featured on the classic 1980’s series of Paladin books. All images optimised for Hi-res Giclee print quality. Each prints is signed by the artist – in edition...

jamesmarsh.com/design/balla...

PDSv2 architecture involves splitting up the current 3-tier PDS architecture (load balancer -> app servers -> Postgres) into a number of standalone servers that we've called "PDS in a box"

PDSv2 servers will be beefy bare metal machines running haproxy + multiple instances Node w/100k+ SQLite DBs.

On C2PA

The first camera with built-in C2PA shipped, Leica M11-P. I think C2PA is super interesting, but hard to explain to non-geeks, so I wrote an overly-long blog that explains why I think it’s technically sound and socially useful: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

J G Ballard's non-fiction is an insight into the depth and breadth of his ideas.

Editor Mark Blacklock suggests my concordances are invaluable research resources, they are free to use here:

Ballard's books: bonsall-books.co.uk/concordance Ballard's interviews: bonsall-books.co.uk/interviewsconc

Probably the best non-fiction book if you want to understand more about Ballard.

JG Ballard’s first published novel.

bluesky at Pollux (italian alps)

cose che ho imparato oggi: Angelo Dalle Molle, inventore del Cynar, è stato un mecenate degli studi sull'intelligenza artificiale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Dalle_Molle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalle_Molle_Institu...

bluesky!

The Amazon Prime Video team was able to reduce cost by moving from Serverless backed by Lambda to monoliths running on VMs.

"Moving our service to a monolith reduced our infrastructure cost by over 90%. It also increased our scaling capabilities."

Hello it's me your good friend Amazon S3