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NARA hosting "lite" Bush website archive

NARA hosting “lite” Bush website archive

By Ira Nathenson on February 16, 2009

There are plenty of good changes in the new whitehouse.gov site, such as a better copyright policy that enables clearer copying and remix, and a much shorter robots.txt file, which makes it easier for search engines and archivists to index and archive the site.  (Compare the current 4-line Obama robots file to a 2300+ version [...]

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Is Zoetrope the next-gen Internet Archive?

By Ira Nathenson on November 22, 2008

Although the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is a great research tool, its utility is hampered but a lack of basic search mechanisms.  One can search by URL and archived links, but basic Google-style boolean searching isn’t available.  The Archive once offered a beta boolean search tool, but it never worked and it was later withdrawn.
However, [...]

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BoingBoing “unpublishing” blog posts

By Ira Nathenson on July 8, 2008

When is it ok to delete a blog post?  Dan Solove wrote about this a few years back at Concurring Opinions, where he points to additional posts at Prawfsblawg (here, here, and here). More recently, BoingBoing faced public scrutiny when one of its authors removed posts related to blogger and sex columnist Violet Blue, although [...]

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