Newly signed copies of my books are available at Left Bank Books in St Louis! They ship everywhere. Support a great independent bookstore and buy the books that explain the news: left-bank.com/product/sign...

The Marne at Chennevieres https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/14871

A Conversation with Carol Kussmann: Digital Preservation Analyst at the University of Minnesota #Libraries (via @saa-official.bsky.social) saaers.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/a... #digipres #digitalpreservation #saa_ers

Hussam Hallak @hussamhallak.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives medium.com/community-ar...

2025 has been a great year for the ARK Alliance. The 1720+ ARK organizations include 12 national libraries, 215 universities, 254 archives, 144 museums, 124 journals, and 59 scientific centers. arks.org/news/2025-12...

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) announced in November 2025 that LA Referencia will receive up to US$1.5M in funding as one of the inaugural winners of the IOI Network Adoption Fund. arks.org/news/2025-12...

One year ago we launched the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) publish-review-curate platform. This has been one of the most exciting things I've been involved in over the past year. Very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the development of MetaROR!

Here's our latest pyramid scheme.

Madison, Minnesota Pop: 1,400 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,_Minnesota Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130985472 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3733057 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133916977

CoAgMET---the Colorado Agricultural Meteorological network, aka Colorado's Mesonet---was recently recognized for over 30 years of data collection. Read more about the award and the network in this story from CSU Source. Here's to 30 more years of valuable weather and climate information! #cowx

New case study on the French National Library's use of archival resource keys for data discovery. arks.org/news/2025-07...

www.infodocket.com/2025/06/17/r... Short answer is yes.

"Ardam was confronting a different, somewhat sensitive question about navigating a person’s digital history. When Sontag donated her laptop to the archive, did she realize how much she was giving away?" on archiving digital ephemera and culture -- www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

I have a new radio documentary out this week on the BBC World Service, you can hear it here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Imagining Elon Musk drooling at the prospect of feeding the entire Library of Congress into his plagiarism machine.

From 2024. Quite an interesting "deaccessioning" case. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/a...

So pleased to see these go live - new workflows for digital preservation: one on emails and one (a bit more conceptual) on line of business systems: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... These should help you get your brain around steps and options in these format-specific headaches.

This is a very hard time to promote a book -- especially if you've written bestsellers critiquing the regime. If you've appreciated any of the work I've done, please share this and get the word out. Thank you!

NEW: A tiny team at PlayStation has preserved 650 terabytes (and counting) of PlayStation Studios' game-making history - Release and pre-release builds of games, documentation, art, team photos, you name it. - A GDC talk about it ended with a terrific revelation www.gamefile.news/p/playstatio...

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages […]

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content Analysis of Archives Job Postings  I'm thrilled to announce that the new issue of The American Archivist contains a brand new article by Helen Wong Smith, Dawn Schmitz, Cyndi Shein, and Lisa Schmitz: Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content…

Applications now open for @atbw.bsky.social’s Web Archiving School. We’re recruiting fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Everyone is paid. Apply by January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/

Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_. You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers. muse.jhu.edu/book/123276

As a historian who focuses on historical texts and has done a lot of work with offensive historical texts in particular, this paper on a process to 'detoxify' historical texts so they can be used to train LLMs for contemporary applications was very interesting! + arxiv.org/abs/2410.22587

My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access. Can't wait to share it all with you. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he... Read this from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social while you still can.

Join Folasade Adepoju, Oluwatosin Akobe and myself for “Digital Preservation: A Beginner’s Guide” celebrating World Digital Preservation Day 2024 #WDPD2024 u.osu.edu/noonan.37/20...

Non-paywalled copy of: archive.is/2024.10.31-1...

The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/v...

They should be banned from baseball forever

📖➡️ www.wired.com/story/intern...

I guess this is a thing.

Important new set of essays on the archived Web, coming from last year's Resaw conference in Marseilles. All Open Access too. 'Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age' books.fupress.com/catalogue/ex...

Typing "I do not consent to AI monitoring of my computer activities" into a new notepad txt file every morning

"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

Twitter shadowbanned my PhD advisor @phonedudemln.bsky.social. Web archiving is one of our research areas. He had tweeted about how the US Speaker of the House’s wife took down her anti-LGBTQ+ website, but web archives had copies. Please repost to raise awareness of Twitter's academic censorship.