It is so comical that because the right-wing lost the by-election they are hailing the end of our democracy in thier right-wing press like the Telegraph and Times.

You have to remember the right-wing only believes in democracy when they win or it suits them!

#uk #media #newspapers #ukpol

National Library of Argentina: Digital Newspaper Archive of the National Library. This page has been machine-translated from Spanish. “The National Library makes available a new tool for the search, retrieval and visualization of digital objects of periodical publications produced and managed by the institution’s Microfilming and Digitization Center.”

British Library: The British Newspaper Archive reaches 100 million pages. “This week the British Newspaper Archive hits the milestone of 100 million digitised pages. We in the British Library news team are celebrating this achievement and our long partnership with Find My Past by picking a few highlights from the BNA.”

#UK #media #newspapers

'This week the British Newspaper Archive hits the milestone of 100 million digitised pages.'

https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/the-british-newspaper-archive-reaches-100-million-pages

I just sent this feedback to #newspapers.com:

I've been a newspapers.com and #ancestry.com subscriber for years. I'm an armchair, amateur #historian. I've created thousands of #newspaper #clippings. I have shared many of them, via my #blog and a few different #wikis. I do research to share information. It brings me happiness to mine old newspapers for lost knowledge, and to share it.

So your change to limit visitors to five free articles, then require registration and payment is very disheartening. It removes the very reason I do this. Putting up a paywall for viewing previously public clippings is right out of Cory Doctorow's crapification.

I urge you to reconsider your decision. I know you need to produce ROI, but this is a giant body of human knowledge you're taking off the internet.

I had to censor myself to get the feedback to go through. I originally referenced #enshittification , and linked to the #wikipedia article for it, but it wouldn't go through.

@pluralistic
#genealogy
#histodons