Internet Archive from Deepspeed media on Vimeo.
Jonathan Minard directed this video about The Internet Archive and its ambitious task of digitally recording every single book, media file, and website ever put online. I’ve used The Internet Archive more times than I can remember and every time I use it my mind wanders into thinking about what this place would look like as [...]
A look back at the Wilshire Blvd of yesteryear.
Somewhat similar to The New York Times’ The Lively Morgue, National Geographic has just launched a new photoblog on Tumblr called FOUND that digs into the National Geographic archives to bring to light some never-before-seen images. Awesome.
So glad that Twitter finally gave me the option to download my tweet archive. Now I’ll be reminded everyday of the mundane things I used to tweet about a year ago. On another note though, I love how Twitter formats the archive as a webpage. It makes it a lot easier to browse.
Curious City: How much of the Field Museum’s collection is actually on display? from WBEZ on Vimeo. Wrap your head around this fact. The objects you see on display in Chicago’s Field Museum represent only 1% of the actual items owned by the museum. The rest are in the basement (or in storage) away from [...]
This is a reminder for myself that I can now import Twitter archives into Timehop. Now I’m just waiting for Twitter to roll out the Twitter archive to me (they’ve been doing it slowly for all users this past week).
