I wrote about how Mister Rogers addressed war and geopolitical paranoia and why it matters now:

𝗗𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 🎉 ⛺ Join us at Alte Hölle on 8–12 July 2026 to shape the decentralized, democratic, and open technology we truly need. 💡 Submit your proposal for DWeb Camp 2026: Root Systems and take part in the conversation! 🎟 Get your tickets here!

How did Mickey Mouse go from borrowing hit songs to building Disney’s musical legacy? 🎶 1930 Mickey Mouse comic strips referenced popular tunes, then Disney introduced its own “Minnie’s Yoo Hoo,” marking the shift from borrowing music to creating it. Learn more 👇 blog.archive.org/2026/02/24/m...

A l’occasion des #Municipales2026, @laBnF a lancé sa 15e collecte du web électoral : plus de 2000 URL de sites officiels, sites de candidats et de partis, sites de presse, d’associations, forums, etc. sont collectés régulièrement pour couvrir la campagne sur le web.

For the 2026 French municipal elections, @laBnF launched its 15th electoral crawl: more than 2,000 URLs from official websites, candidate and party websites, press and associations websites, forums, etc. are regularly crawled to cover the campaign on the web. #WebArchiveWednesday

“…rare books and type specimens live in the stacks alongside punk flyers and chopstick sleeves. Few cultural institutions treat both valuable and everyday objects with equal reverence. At the Archive, ephemera are no longer quite so ephemeral.” letterformarchive.org/news/this-ju... #Design #Museums

As Kids These Days™ rediscover CDs, a good project would be a CD liner notes archive. High resolution pictures and descriptions & transcriptions of album art, lyrics, thanks, track personnel, all of it. Get living artists to comment on their choices and process. Think it'd be kind of dope.

New Report From IFLA: “Weak Signals: Emergent and Potential #Trends Shaping the Future of #Libraries” www.infodocket.com/2026/02/25/i... @ifla.org #technology #librarytechnology

one year ago. i think it (and constellation) has aged fairly well :)

@larissaakemi.bsky.social is ready for her presentation “Internet Archive: Research & Method Use Cases”. If you cannot join us in person, join the online event 🧵

Back when the internet was wonderful, the Fancy Parking website may have been the most wonderful site of all. web.archive.org/web/20240417...

From the "from the libraries-matter dept" of @techdirt.com An important development facing the Internet Archive by @mark.bsky.social, Director of the Wayback Machine

Stanford Love Data Week 2026 Feb 1–14. Two weeks of hands-on data, libraries, science, & creativity. From BioBlitz species tracking to coding with AI lessons, solar data, Wikidata, and no-code projects. lovedataweek.stanford.edu Led on campus by @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social

"Fibery Library" by @stellesky.bsky.social @awgusz.bsky.social +more, shared in data quilt event chat: library staff knit+crocheters create+blog process of library checkout viz & more combining metadata viz+craft to explore digital+physical: exhibits.library.dartmouth.edu/s/fibery/pag... #DHmakes

Stanford Libraries is doing a TON for #lovedata week. Some events are in-person, some are virtual, all are open to all! Check out the cool events!! lovedataweek.stanford.edu

Live discussion on “AI as Normal Technology” happening now. A conversation with @sayash.bsky.social and @kevintfrazier.bsky.social (Hosted by the Future Knowledge podcast.)

The National Weather Service (NWS) hosts a 3 day Probabilistic Precipitation Portal www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/Prob_Precip/

This year’s contest received over 270 submissions from creators across 35 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, and 28 countries worldwide. 🌐 And thanks to @npr.org for shining a light on these fantastic creators! 🔗 Read the NPR piece ⤵️ www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n... #publicdomain

Hey who's going to the @archive.org Public Domain Day 2026 celebration? blog.archive.org/event/the-ca...

The short film Public Domain Film Remix Contest still open! Two days left to send in a your music & video mix! There are the prizes (USD): 1st prize: $1500 2nd prize: $1000 3rd prize: $500

I love seeing the fun things that creative people build on #Bluesky like this flag mashup bot

A preview of coming attractions! In addition to our January 1 countdown, look out for our Public Domain Day celebration, in person and virtually!

I am on the committee for the SAA Brenda S. Banks Travel Award given annually to archivists of color who would like to become active in SAA. It provides generous travel support and a years membership in SAA. Please share in your networks and with those that might be our next recipient!

🧵1️⃣ How do you visualize & explore millions of archived web pages? @InternetArchive.EU partnered with software engineers & the Internet Archive to make a navigable mosaic you can explore with a joystick, buttons, or voice. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...

These new library kiosks are a fun visual way to explore web collections! Visitors to the National Library of the Netherlands used a physical joystick and buttons to explore a variety of webpages in a game-like experience. blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f... Thank you @kb.nl & @internetarchive.eu

An example of Democracy's Library in action, thanks to the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) UC Berkeley. Over 6,000 municipal documents digitized and available in @archive.org - "essential sources for understanding California’s civic past and present." igs.berkeley.edu/news/library...

Free Christmas gift: Get a National Library of Ireland card @nlireland.bsky.social stick the extra photos to holiday cards for your fam

The most unique bookshop I've been in yet. Boekhandel Dominicanen is in a 13th century Dominican Church in Maastricht, and it is beautiful. Good range of books too! 📚 #books #bookshop #photography #architecture #RepurposedBuildings

Meet Merrilee the new Internet Archive 🏛️ Director of Democracy’s Library. She’s here on Bluesky: @merrileeiam.bsky.social

!!! Three more organisations have joined the global #OurFutureMemory movement! * @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG) * Boston Library Consortium * @libraryfutures.bsky.social 🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t... 🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org

UCD Library is very pleased to see that @iua-official.bsky.social has signed this 'Statement on the Four Digital Rights of Memory Institutions'. @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucddigitallibrary.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social

Vancouver meetup coming up on Dec 18th 2025 for librarians, archivists, and friends of Internet Archive Canada! Follow @internetarchiveca.bsky.social for more information and register at luma.com/csng5hm9

Today starting in a couple hours:

Last week a CDC webpage about vaccine safety was edited. Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison: web.archive.org/web/diff/202... The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, he introduced simple numeric codes to describe what was happening with each request. You might be familiar with: 200 “OK” 404 “Not Found” Among those early web codes was 402, “Payment Required”

Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!

We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.

Meet Merrilee Proffitt, Director of Democracy’s Library US | Internet Archive Blogs https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/meet-merrilee-proffitt-director-of-democracys-library-us/

If you'd like an informative and interesting conversation to enjoy try "Inside Harvard’s Data.gov Archive – A Conversation with Jack Cushman" @jed.co interviewing Jack Cushman @harvardlil.bsky.social about Data.gov archiving on @source.coop Now live www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYMb...

Inside the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine as they save one trillion web pages and prepare themselves for the future: "Libraries have always been under attack, now more than during my lifetime, but let's go and live up to the moment." www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

Federal agencies are posting banners on their websites accusing Democrats and the “Radical Left” for the government shutdown, using language that is partisan, disparaging, and contemptuous. Learn more in our most recent Highlights from the Change Log: envirodatagov.org/federal-agen...

Did I ever tell you about a friend who started her own trail running camp? Running is just a small part of it. The heart of it is 8 mins in open.spotify.com/episode/6c2B...

Happy Internet Archive Day to all who celebrate. The Internet Archive is hitting its trillionth webpage archived, and - as a long time collaborator and historian of both web archiving more generally as well as the Internet Archive specifically - am happy to join them for this milestone.

It's official! 🏛️ 🎉 The SF Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge. Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...

@archive.org is ready for Wednesday’s event! Celebrating 1Trillion web pages archived. Congrats to everyone who has made this possible over the years. Find Wednesday’s event over on Eventive

Happy 1,000,000,000,000 webpages archived! Celebrating one trillion webpages archived at the @archive.org Internet Archive

Ethics and Technology Practitioner fellowship program (by Stanford McCoy Center) is hosting an information session tomorrow: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

For background on all this and how Fitzgerald entered the chat, the OIG report is available here: web.archive.org/web/20250818... Yes, it’s an archive link (which DOJ used in the filing) — the official DOJ Office of Inspector General website is currently offline, as below. 3/3