Author: Evan Menogue

People don’t read news anymore.

Journalism’s fight for survival in a postliterate democracy

and also

Lessons on media policy at the slaughter-bench of history

With the Internet Archive celebrating a milestone, Inside Story reviews a definition of a library and it’s role in current times.

What is a library? • Inside Story

Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook — useful tips for archiving particular digital humanities artefacts.

One Practical Thing: Protect Information — why digital preservation is important

Disney Shows Precisely Why Privacy Policies and Terms of Service Always Matter – FunnyMonkey

Particularly the newer TOS with ‘arbitration’ constraints / limitations.

Accessible tips for people to protect their privacy

Updates to the Personal Privacy and Security Guide – FunnyMonkey

https://github.com/billfitzgerald/personal-privacy-security

Tracking provenance of digital objects – Adobe ProjectKnowHow

Project Know How allows you to spot alterations to images and videos — even if they’ve been pulled from physical prints or objects! Using Adobe’s watermarking technology and durable content credentials, you can trace the origin of an image, prevent online metadata stripping, and attach content credentials to any image.

New Adobe MAX Sneaks Transform Photo, Video, Audio, and 3D Creation | Adobe Blog

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXwxlbusP6c[/youtube]

Drew Breunig proposes three (or four, Toys!) use-cases for AI and supplies suggestive language to assist categorise them in our thinking and conversations.

The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs | Drew Breunig

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record | Internet Archive Blogs

http://blog.archive.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vanishing-Culture-2024.pdf

Build a search engine, not a vector DB