Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
From the Article: Brewster Kahle is the great librarian of the Internet. His company, Wais Inc., scanned and listed the content of computer servers, and was sold to America Online for $15 million. A second project, Alexa Internet, logged Internet traffic patterns and recommended sites. It went to Amazon for $250 million in 1999. He is [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Brewster Kahle has many titles. These days he’s best known as founder of the Internet Archive (home of The Wayback Machine) and founding member of the Open Content Alliance. From the Article: “We have to have universal access to everything, just like a library,” he says. “Do we want that under a single corporation’s control? It [...]
Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Brewster Kahle, John Borthwick, and I were interviewed last week for WSJ piece that was published this week:[via Trying to Save the Web's Shortcuts by Andrew Lavallee] "If one of these organizations were to go away, then it's like part...
Search Engine News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The revised Google Books settlement agreement may quiet international opponents, but it still gives Google a monopoly on commercializing out-of-print books where the copyrights are unclaimed and fails to protect consumer privacy, opponents said on Monday. “We’re at a cross roads,” Internet Archive Director Brewster Kahle said during a panel late Monday on the Future of Books at the Commonwealth...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... Internet Archive is honored to play this role to help make the Web more robust," added Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. All participating companies are members of the 301Works.org Working Group, a technical and policy discussion group, but the Internet Archive will manage the over all initiative in a fashion consistent with its charter as...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... Internet Archive is honored to play this role to help make the Web more robust," added Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. All participating companies are members of the 301Works.org Working Group, a technical and policy discussion group, but the Internet Archive will manage the over all initiative in a fashion consistent with its charter as...
Berkeley Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... of the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group in the 80's, was there at a cohousing booth, and I ran into Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, at a talk by former Weather Underground members Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who were touting a new book they'd written. Bill and Bernadine were a blast from the Vietnam-war past, and when Brewster asked them why people weren't...
The Green Apple Core (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... bad, but we're still talking about heavy hitters like Jared Friedman , co-founder of Scribd and Brewster Kahle , co-founder of InternetArchive.org . Actually, two great sites that I frequent regularly. This is certain to be a great experience for me - I just hope that the listeners on over 350 radio stations across the nation will feel the same way. So, I'm hoping that some of you...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... Internet Archive is honored to play this role to help make the Web more robust," added Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. The issue of archiving the web of course touches a much broader spectrum than that of URL-shorteners. 301Works should go a long way for maintaining shortened URLs, but what about Facebook updates? Tweets? What if Facebook...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive founder who recently announced the BookServer project as a vehicle to compete with Amazon's Kindle e-books and Google Editions for vending and lending e-books over the Internet is profiled in Forbes at Lend Ho! Brewster Kahle...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
An intriguing tweet yesterday from Steven Levy of Wired Magazine, which, if true, could open huge doors for future-safe archives . Brewster Kahle is talking about the Internet Archive making public S3 storage (what Amazon rents) free on their servers. Does anyone have any more info on this? If this is true, I will be building on it.
Scripting News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
An intriguing tweet yesterday from Steven Levy of Wired Magazine, which, if true, could open huge doors for future-safe archives . Brewster Kahle is talking about the Internet Archive making public S3 storage (what Amazon rents) free on their servers. Does anyone have any more info on this? If this is true, I will be building on it.
Information Today (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... sites such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Perhaps even more significantly, on Oct. 19, Brewster Kahle and a team of Internet Archive (IA) staff formally announced their latest venture: BookServer (www.archive.org/bookserver).
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... served a controversial National Security Letter (.pdf) on the Internet Archive ’s founder Brewster Kahle, asking for records about one of the library’s registered users, asking for the user’s name, address and activity on the site. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive’s lawyers, fought the NSL, challenging its constitutionality in a December...
bookfutures (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
"Tonight, Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Founder and Chief Librarian, introduced what he calls his “BookServer” project. BookServer is a framework of tools and activities. It is an open-architectured set of tools that allow for the discoverability, distribution, and delivery of electronic books by retailers, librarians, and aggregators, all in a way that makes for a...
