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Download a wide variety of books, interviews, and live music- for free! The Internet Archive has made available an audio archive with, as of December, 2008, over 313,000 audio files. You may not find top twenty hits available, and the sound quality may not always be pristine, especially for live recordings. However, a lot of interesting songs and other items can be found for your digital audio player...
In this 1936 Modern Mechanix article, a fantasy about shrinking the Library of Congress to fit "in a few small filing cabinets" on microfiche/film. Once this is done, copies of the great library will be distributed to worthy institutions all over the world. This is one of the Ur-dreams of librarianship, what Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive calls "universal access to all human knowledge." Today's...
I was asked recently for book recommendations on digital storytelling in the classroom. Here are a few suggestions which come to mind, as well as some links to electronic resources on digital storytelling. If you still need to do some Christmas shopping for digital storytellers in your family or circle of friends, these books would [...]
Let's take a trip back to 1952 - the dawn of the atomic age. The free world stands poised to reap the harvest of virtually limitless atomic energy. I sure hope those pesky Russkies don't ruin everything before we get...
I saw this poem up on eBay , but searched it on Internet Archive, and found it there: Langdon Smith. Evolution: A Fantasy (Boston: John W. Luce and Company, 1909)
If you had the time and the patience, you could spend the rest of your life downloading and listening to new music, and never pay a penny. I’m not talking about dodgy P2P networks, bootlegging or piracy either. The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) lists more than a thousand netlabels, most of which release new music for [...]
If you’re looking for some new creative ideas on buzz marketing with online video, check out the Internet Archive, a virtual digital library of public domain (i.e., free) video content. While its primarily used for research and educational purposes, some companies are drawing from its inventory to create new movie clips for entertainment pieces associated [...]
Christine Hennig reviews Day of Thanksgiving on the Internet Archive: A working class family has trouble making ends meet, and so the parents have to break the news to the kids that there will be no turkey for Thanksgiving this year. When the kids act like this is the End of the World, Dad changes their [...]
Looney Tunes on my XO! The other day John Gilmore pointed me towards a very interesting initiative: the Internet Archive is currently working on making all its videos accessible to OLPC XO users by converting them to Ogg Theora. And in this case "all its videos" means 185,000 moving images, including many cartoons and full-length movies that have fallen into the public domain. Now that's quite an impressive...
Looney Tunes on my XO! The other day John Gilmore pointed me towards a very interesting initiative: the Internet Archive is currently working on making all its videos accessible to OLPC XO users by converting them to Ogg Theora. And in this case "all its videos" means 185,000 moving images, including many cartoons and full-length movies that have fallen into the public domain. Now that's quite an impressive...
From Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media Update: Here’s the video Eytan et al have been working on Zoetrope for a while, but here is a new article/video that shows of how far they’ve come. Zoetrope is a combination of a browser and a web archive that allows the user to manipulate the temporal point [...]
Master archivist Rick Prelinger sez, It’s 1951, and America fears Communism and the Bomb. Since the Johnsons, a working-class Midwestern family, can’t afford a Thanksgiving turkey, they decide to spend an evening writing up what they’re thankful for, and share their thoughts around the dinner table. Unlike almost every other Cold War educational and industrial [...]
Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Here I conclude the discussion of Ignatius by discussing his Judaizing opponents, who advocated certain Jewish beliefs and practices. I also deal with Ignatius’ strategies in combating groups he considered heretical. This is part of series 3 (”Diversity in Early Christianity: ‘Heresies’ and Struggles”) of the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean podcast. Podcast 3.4: Docetic [...]
Master archivist Rick Prelinger sez, It's 1951, and America fears Communism and the Bomb. Since the Johnsons, a working-class Midwestern family, can't afford a Thanksgiving turkey, they decide to spend an evening writing up what they're thankful for, and share their thoughts around the dinner table. Unlike almost every other Cold War educational and industrial film, this film doesn't equate freedom...
Master archivist Rick Prelinger sez, It's 1951, and America fears Communism and the Bomb. Since the Johnsons, a working-class Midwestern family, can't afford a Thanksgiving turkey, they decide to spend an evening writing up what they're thankful for, and share their thoughts around the dinner table. Unlike almost every other Cold War educational and industrial film, this film doesn't equate freedom...
