Joe Carrano @joe@digipres.club

New header image — digital is material #WriteProtect #FloppyDisk

Open Letter: 500+ Historians Support the Railway Workers #histodon https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfTvmVdS0t8kAsfIB_wtqFY7NqCDw-wmanEQnKT8H6iGhh1QA/viewform

What do I need?
- A 3.5-inch computer disk
- A butter knife

very glad to see this still on the web: https://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/dissect_disk.html

And processing can wait
Cause it's never too late with MPLP
Your docs hide away
But don't look back in anger, old colleagues say

Regardless your views on PDF, it does support alt text and archive.social would be better if it could capture it https://archive.social/static/example.pdf

#Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5d34px/libraries-are-launching-their-own-local-music-streaming-platforms

Sure you could hollow out a book to hide cash or a weapon, but why not a SyQuest cartridge?

Thank you thesis binders of 1995

Starting my own fork of mastodon called Webster where I just find and replace all versions of "favourite" with "favorite"

Whelp, Springshare is experiencing a DDoS attack today 👀

Alerted via RSS that Jefferson Bailey, Director of Data and Archiving Services at the Internet Archive, either let his domain registration lapse or got really into Tarot https://jeffersonbailey.com/ #linkrot #WDPD2022

Emulate! At the Library of Congress James Madison Building Manuscript Division Reading Room https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2022/11/accessing-our-digital-past-in-the-manuscript-division-reading-room/

"PLEASE FoRWARD THIS EMAIL To S0ME0NE IN YoUR CoMPANY WHo iS ALLoWED To MAKE IMPORTANT DECISIoNS!

We have hacked your website https://libguides.mit.edu and extracted y0ur databases."

I'm rooting for Packard over Hewlett in the Series https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/t_16x9/t_w1024/mlb/ibg84xgwr1nqfgjfinun.jpg

The article is really all over the place

"On the more hopeful side, the Text Encoding Initiative has maintained international standards for encoding machine-­readable texts since the 1990s." Is this really the biggest bright spot 😑 https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/26/1061308/death-of-information-digitization/

TIL Polaroid held the trademark for the term DataRescue™️ until 2007 https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806%3Ahmrik.2.2

V. interested in this hypercard program about sludge: "The Boston Harbor Sewage Stack" https://news.mit.edu/1992/sludge-1007