Comments on: Lessons from the Breakdown Lane https://nickm.com/post/2011/01/lessons-from-the-breakdown-lane/ Nick Montfort Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:35:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Tweets that mention Post Position » Lessons from the Breakdown Lane -- Topsy.com https://nickm.com/post/2011/01/lessons-from-the-breakdown-lane/comment-page-1/#comment-8227 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:35:39 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1317#comment-8227 […] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lori Emerson. Lori Emerson said: Montfort's Lessons from the Breakdown Lane – the @eliterature and Archive.org come out on top: http://bit.ly/gDDjBW […]

]]> By: Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2011/01/lessons-from-the-breakdown-lane/comment-page-1/#comment-8220 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:58:23 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1317#comment-8220 Via Wayne Marshall: Could liability be hobbling the Internet Archive?

I thought, actually, that the Internet Archive had express legal permission via the Library of Congress to archive the Web. Am I misremembering?

]]> By: nick https://nickm.com/post/2011/01/lessons-from-the-breakdown-lane/comment-page-1/#comment-8215 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:39:32 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1317#comment-8215 As they did six months ago, the Internet Archive is saying that their move to a new interface, with more recent archived files available, will happen soon: “the rollout has continued to experience delays …”

]]> By: nick https://nickm.com/post/2011/01/lessons-from-the-breakdown-lane/comment-page-1/#comment-8214 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:35:42 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1317#comment-8214 I found this article from sometime on or after November 10, 2010: “Internet Archive Increases Delay in Posting Pages to Collection.”

]]> By: William Patrick Wend https://nickm.com/post/2011/01/lessons-from-the-breakdown-lane/comment-page-1/#comment-8213 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:44:03 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1317#comment-8213 I’ve noticed that delay with the Internet Archive as well. I am looking for something on my domain I deleted accidentally and it hasn’t shown up yet. I don’t remember it being so delayed in previous times…

]]> By: Alan De Smet https://nickm.com/post/2011/01/lessons-from-the-breakdown-lane/comment-page-1/#comment-8207 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:08:36 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1317#comment-8207 The Internet Archive always seems to lag by a few years. They don’t actually scrape the web, they get data dumps from Alexa’s web crawl. There is some sort of delay; I don’t know if it’s a delay to integrate, a delay by Alexa to preserve some sort of competitive advantage, or something else.

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