Internet Archive Blogs » Wendy Hanamura

Written contributions by Val Elefante, Jenny Fan, Dazza Greenwood, Cent Hosten, Ronen Tamari, Joshua Tan, Riley Wong, and Jacky Zhao The Metagovernance Project (aka- Metagov) returned to DWeb Cam...

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/22/dweb-camp-exploring-governance-ai/

If you’ve ever been to a typical tech event, full of neon-lit booths and cavernous main stage talks, you know it’s just about the last place you’d want to bring

https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/05/bring-your-family-to-dweb-camp/

CALLING ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS: In just a few months, the lawsuit Hachette v. Internet Archive will be heard in court. In 2020, four of the world’s largest publishers sued our

https://blog.archive.org/2022/06/08/gitcoin-grants-donate-a-few-tokens-defend-a-public-treasure/

Amidst the speculative boom for NFTs and crypto-currencies, one decentralized technology foundation is taking the long view by investing in deep history and the far future.  Today, the Filecoin ...

https://blog.archive.org/2021/04/01/filecoin-foundation-grants-50000-fil-to-the-internet-archive/

The glass rises and falls. Quickly and efficiently, a woman turns the pages to the rhythmic beep of the cameras. She never misses a beat. In its first 48 hours,

https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/

Introducing the new Open Library Explorer As a student at the University of Waterloo, whenever Drini Cami felt stressed, he’d head to the library. Wandering through the stacks, flipping through...

https://blog.archive.org/2020/12/21/what-if-you-could-wander-the-library-stacks-online/

Need to know what an Igloo really looks like? How about a Siberian hut? Or the inside of a 15th Century jail?  For 50 years in Hollywood,

https://blog.archive.org/2020/12/15/after-searching-for-a-decade-legendary-hollywood-research-library-finds-a-new-home/

When Filecoin, the cryptocurrency-fueled decentralized storage network launched recently, it was no surprise they called it Filecoin Liftoff. In the payload of that Filecoin rocket are treasures ...

https://blog.archive.org/2020/10/22/what-information-should-we-be-preserving-in-filecoin/

Is the Ad-Tech model powering the Internet really just the next financial bubble? That is the question at the heart of a significant new book by Internet researcher Tim Hwang: Subprime Atte...

https://blog.archive.org/2020/10/19/advertising-powers-the-web-what-if-it-just-doesnt-work/

The following was a guest post by Brewster Kahle in Against The Grain (ATG). See the original article from September 28, 2020 on the ATG website here. Back in 2006,  I was

https://blog.archive.org/2020/10/07/on-bookstores-libraries-archives-in-the-digital-age/