IA Founder, Brewster Kahle, was at the presentation and said:
"We are trying to follow in the footsteps of the the free software movement and apply these ideas to the cultural materials layer, building organizations that are founded on these principals."
Since the Internet Archive provides access to so much content, It sometimes is forgotten that while The Wayback Machine has become an ESSENTIAL tool for conducting Internet research, it's only part of what they do.
Consider the Text Archive where full text books are being digitized at locations around the world and then made available to search, find and access. Soon the Text Archive will have over 2 million books in its collection.
Consider the Live Music Archive and Audio Archive.
Just about 76,000 concerts archived and ready to listen enjoy. Plus, over 500,000 audio files, from radio shows to book and poetry readings.
The Moving Image Archive (one of our favorite IA resources) is home to over 250k films that can be viewed online or downloaded.
The BookServer is a growing open architecture for vending and lending digital books over the Internet. Built on open catalog and open book formats, the BookServer model allows a wide network of publishers, booksellers, libraries, and even authors to make their catalogs of books available directly to readers through their laptops, phones, netbooks, or dedicated reading devices.
Again, congrats to the entire IA team. Keep up the great and important work.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
