The Internet Archive Team: How to Fix a Democracy

Plus, a look behind the scenes of our December fundraising drive, and a new way to experience small domains.

Archive    Donate     Blog     Jobs     Volunteer     December 2019 Browsing the Archive Before You Cast Your Vote With six weeks until the first votes are cast in Iowa, just why is Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig on the road, urging us to address a problem that is unlikely to dominate headlines this election season?  "Unrepresentativeness," Lessig explains, is at the heart of what ails our body politic, and every candidate should make curing it a top priority.  Hear Lessig's incisive, sometimes optimistic, often moving ideas from his recent visit to the Internet Archive to talk about his latest book, "They Don't Represent Us." DIVE IN Marketing Made Her Miserable The Internet Archive has a staff of about 150 people, and every single one has a unique story to tell. Here's a tale from of one of our newest team members—about how she lost her way and found it again, survived the madness of the startup world, and found special meaning in our annual fundraising drive. READ JENICA'S STORY Tiny Domains and Where To Find Them Have you ever wondered what the internet looks like in the Antarctic? The Web might be world-wide, but not every country is equally represented. That's why the Internet Archive recently created the Whole Earth Web Archive, a special portal for browsing archived sites from the 50 smallest internet domains in the world—from Andorra to Yemen. It really IS a small world after all. SEE THE WORLD Libraries in the 21st Century The future of libraries is here, and it's a brave new world for readers and librarians alike. Internet Archive founder and Digital Librarian Brewster Kahle sat down at the annual Charleston Library Conference to discuss decentralization, contextualization, and the ways that we can make information available to everyone. WATCH NOW An Illuminating Project There are old books, and then there are really old books. The Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis project has made hundreds of illuminated manuscripts available online, some dating as far back as the ninth century⁠—including alchemical texts, musical manuscripts, almanacs, and cookbooks, complete with notes and doodles in the margins⁠.  Spot Rides Again Remember Spot, the surfing dog from last month's newsletter? The canine king of the waves is back in a brand new video by San Francisco artists Larisa Berger and Zack McCune: Spot Stands Up. Check out this restored, recut, and reanimated celebration of a surfer's best friend—complete with a new original score!   What We're Reading THE ATLANTIC: Our Predictions About the Internet Are Probably Wrong POYNTER: Did NASA give spiders drugs to see how they would affect web-spinning? THE OUTLINE: A Good Place: The World's Oldest .com Domain Is Now a Museum of Internet History REAL CLEAR POLITICS: What a Decade of Data Says About the TV News Landscape THE GUARDIAN: Streaming: Stumfilm – the silence of Danes NPR: Following Backlash, Twitter Offers to 'Memorialize' Accounts Of The Deceased WASHINGTON POST: These crusaders want to preserve 'human culture' online. Their latest target: Yahoo Groups. BOING BOING: The Oligarch Game   DONATE TO THE INTERNET ARCHIVE Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2019 Internet Archive. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Internet Archive 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118