These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week.
When Bits Rot - with C McKean, L Talboom, A Page-Mitchell
English Edition: floppy disks, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, SSD drives - no matter what you choose to store your data on - ultimately they all decay. With my guests Callum McKean, Leontien Talboom and Adrian Page-Mitchell, we’re going to talk about what kinds of data we…
I’ve talked here before about my efforts to preserve and make available the archives of the long-lived disk magazine Loadstar. Please forgive me for linking to that once again, but sales of it help me obtain food: Loadstar Compleat. If you want to see more past posts on Loadstar, you can check the helpful Loadstar … Continue reading "Who Owns Softdisk and Big Blue Disk Now?"
TL;DR if you have a TASCAM 788 backup and don’t know how to get the audio out of it this
script might help. Also: AI tools work best when paired with expertise.
I needed to take a very personal excursion into digital preservation recently as I attempted to listen to some audio recordings my brother John had made about 20 years ago. John died recently, and is sorely missed by his friends…
Beverly Steele didn’t realize her hometown could be recognized for its historic significance. It’s one of the only two African American homesteading communities left in the nation. In Royal, Florida, Black families are still holding onto the inherited 40-acre plot passed down nearly two centuries ago. It’s a rare reality in America today, given the […]
The post One of America’s Last Black…
Anne Monteverdi made sure Series Seeker stuck around to keep track of all the RPG hobby's stories.
On Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 1:00 pm, the Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group hosted its monthly program at the Black Archives of Mid-America-1722 E. 17th Terrace-Kansas City, MO 64108.
The MUUS Collection has acquired the Todd Webb archive, an American photographer whose images of postwar city life in New York City and Paris serve as visual time capsules to bygone eras. MUUS preserves, researches, and reveals works from the archives in its care.
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On Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 1:00 pm, the Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group hosted its monthly program at the Black Archives of Mid-America-1722 E. 17th Terrace-Kansas City, MO 64108.
It's an icon of early internet videos: 12 badgers doing calisthenics while a mushroom and snake occasionally appear on screen, known as "Badger Badger Badger" or "The Badger Song."
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In all of our conversations about video game preservation, one common thread is the general apathy of developers and publishers when it comes to this sort of thing. It’s actually a bit mind boggling to me that apathy is even a thing here. After all, this is the work done by these developers and, to […]
The Slower Fear
There’s a particular kind of fear I don’t think we talk about enough.
Not fear of death in the dramatic sense. Not skeletons and graveyards and existential screaming into the void at 03:00. I mean the quieter version. The slower one. The fear of erosion. Of degradation. Of things slipping away so gradually you only notice once the shape is already gone.
A dead link.
A corrupted…
I know very well how fragile the web is. The internet is “just” computers and cables, and I think that most of us have the...
A famous viral video is being preserved by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, an organization charged with the preservation of the country's audiovisual cultural heritage.
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There is an old axiom you will have heard of before: don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If we wanted to boil this down to a math equation, it might be described as something like: 0 < any positive integer. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp, typically, until you add […]
In 1991, _Spin_ magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different than escapist, violent popcorn blockbusters. “They’re not stupid, even though you may think so by the time you finish this article,” he writes of one of the greatest groups in the history of…
Officials in Savannakhey have recognized two historic landmarks in Champhone district as National Heritage sites, marking a key step in preserving the province’s religious and cultural history. The town celebrated Ho Tay Pidok Library and Kao Talaew Temple during a three-day ceremony held from 2–4 March, which brought together provincial and district officials, Buddhist monks, […]