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fascinating, hypnotic, inspirational, appalling, irrelevant
Thanks to everyone that noticed the Wikistream coverage in the NextWeb article and elsewhere. If you happen to have tweeted about Wikistream in the last 2 days you should see your avatar to the left....
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NoDB
Last week Liam Wyatt emailed me asking if I could add The National Museum of Australia to Linkypedia, which tracks external links from Wikipedia articles to specific websites. Specifically Liam was...
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on not linking
NPR Morning Edition recently ran an interview with Teju Cole about his most recent project called Small Fates. Cole is the recipient of the 2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for his novel Open City....
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a bit of Storify making it over into WordPress v3.4: Twitter Embeds en.support.wordpress.com/twitter/twitte… — Ed Summers (@edsu) June 14, 2012
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If you are an active Twitter user you may have heard that you can now download your complete archive of tweets. The functionality is still being rolled out across the millions of accounts, so don’t be...
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Aaron Swartz left us all a week ago. It’s strange, I only met Aaron once at the Internet Archive, and had a handful of conversations with him via email/irc … but not a day has passed since last...
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The news about Emoji Dick (the version of Moby Dick translated into Emoji) being acquired by the Library of Congress prompted me to capriciously go to Twitter Search to see who was talking about it. As...
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python heal thyself
.@adriarichards is currently getting doxed & threatened w/ violence. Search Twitter for her name & report abuse: bit.ly/Y82Ntx — Gina Trapani (@ginatrapani) March 21, 2013 After seeing Gina’s...
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The Web as a Preservation Medium
This is the text of a talk I gave at the (wonderful) National Digital Forum in Wellington, New Zealand on November 27th, 2013. You can also find my slides here. Hi there. Thanks for inviting me to NDF...
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A Ferguson Twitter Archive
Much has been written about the significance of Twitter as the recent events in Ferguson echoed round the Web, the country, and the world. I happened to be at the Society of American Archivists meeting...
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On Archiving Tweets
After my last post about collecting 13 million Ferguson tweets Laura Wrubel from George Washington University’s Social Feed Manager project recommended looking at how Mark Phillips made his Yes All...
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The top 25 tags in 166,246 tweets between 2014-09-29 09:54:18 – 2014-09-21 10:31:00 (EDT) mentioning #occupycentral. hongkong 37,836 hkstudentstrike 13,667 hk 12,819 hk926 9,928 hkclassboycott 7,439...
View ArticleSocial Machines and the Archive
Yesterday MIT announced that Twitter made a 5 million dollar investment to help them create a Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM) as part of the MIT Media Lab proper: MIT launches Laboratory for...
View ArticleOn Forgetting
After writing about the Ferguson Twitter archive a few months ago three people have emailed me out of the blue asking for access to the data. One was a principal at a small, scaryish defense...
View ArticleLanguages on Twitter.
There have been some interesting visualizations of languages in use on Twitter, like this one done by Gnip and published in the New York Times. Recently I’ve been involved in some research on...
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#c4l15
code4lib 2015 is about to kick off in Portland this morning. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it this year, but I’m looking forward to watching the livestream over the next few days. Thanks so much to the...
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Archives are full of silences. Archivists try to surface these silences by making appraisal decisions about what to collect and what not to collect. Even after they are accessioned, records can be...
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