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An Australian museum is creating Australia's first email archive to capture a snapshot of Australian society and to celebrate the role email plays in daily communications.

The goals of the Archive-It project, courtesy of the Internet Archive, will be assisted with the addition of keyword search.

The comics industry has suffered through years of flagging readership and lower demand for titles, but Marvel may have powered up a way to a resurgence for their work.

It’s only for a six-month trial period, and it involves just 20,000 people in the UK, but something important has transpired - part of the BBC archive went online.  And if everything goes well, we can look for all of that audio and video to become much more widely available.

After news of Suzanne Shell's countersuit against Internet Archive surviving by the thread of one non-dismissed claim – the claim that Internet Archive's Wayback Machine web crawler was guilty of breach of contract by ignoring the site's terms of use – hit the cyber circuit, a real catfight hissed and scratched its way across the weekend. You might call it a "flame war," in the traditional Internet sense, but that's hardly accurate.

Marc's The Video Library of Alexandria post on O'Reilly Radar connected a set of dots for me that I can't believe I never connected on my own. In that, it certainly seems like an appropriate purchase for Google, much like DejaNews before it.

We worry so much about click-through rates, ad campaigns, and keyword pricing that it's easy to miss out on the more creative side of what the Internet can offer.

The Internet Archive a non-profit group that was founded in 1996 to build an Internet library can breathe a little easier. The Library of Congress has published six exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.