And im the director of Community Partnerships for theMassachusetts Historical Society. Our program this evening is a seasonal, its a look at the tradition of Summer Reading we are joined by professor donna harringtonlueker on her new publication gavin kleespies, 19th century publishing the rise of Summer Reading. She is a passer in Newport Rhode island and she has an undergraduate degree from rhode island and phd. As a former magazine writer and editor, Research Interests include 19thcentury print culture, womens magazines on any period and radical or alternative press. Before we begin id like to extend a special welcome to anyone joining the Virtual Program for the first time. If youre not familiar with the Massachusetts Historical Society we are the first Historical Society in america and have been preserving publishing and sharing our history since 1791. We hold a collection of 14 million manuscript pages including the papers of the first three president s of the unitedstates. Or im
Members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. Brewster kahle, what you do for living . I run the archives. Internet library on the internet that catalogs books, trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. That sounds like the internet. Doesnt it . Guest the internet is getting there but the published works is not fast enough. The average life of a webpage is only 100 days. Before it is changed or deleted. One hundred days. We built our culture on this ever shifting hand soap with the internet archive it takes snapshots of the webpages on websites every two months. It takes a snapshot and its been doing this since 1996 and offers it as a free service on archives. Org and used by hundred of thousands of people a day to find all the things that been disappeared either maliciously or sometimes just drop off the net. How many websites are there today . Guest hundreds of millions and they are coming and going all of the time. We collec
Host the committee the co is that the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. Were going to share some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. So brewster kahle, what you do for living . Guest i run the internet archives, Internet Library onto internet the gives way books, music, video webpages, software for free trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. Host that sounds like the internet, doesnt it . Guest the internet is getting there but lets take of the web. The average life of the webpage is only 100 days before it is changed or deleted. 100 days. We built our culture on this ever shifting sand so what the internet archives does is it take snapshots of the webpages on websites every two months. Snapshot, snapchat comes snapshot. Its been doing this at 1986 and offers this as a service. Its used by hundreds of thousands a day. They find all these things disappear, either ma
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