Mastodawn

Lots of people are struggling to choose a search engine other than Google. I made a thing to encourage people to not only try many different global search engines with better privacy, but to also remind everyone to purposefully use site-specific engines. You'll want to check out the full list of !bangs.

I believe everyone should !bang more… That may or may not be a better tagline for this search box.

https://udo.se

UDO — More engines. More freedom. More you.

Discover independent, privacy-respecting search engines. Break free from big tech and reclaim your digital independence.

UDO

Sarah Gentile May 27

Sara Joy

May 25

"I’m not the only one. Personal sites are coming back. RSS feeds are coming back. Webrings are coming back. People are remembering that a website can be a home or a place instead of a profile."

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

Yessss @tg - this echoes what I've been thinking lately, but put in much more depth and eloquence than I could have managed.

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

Terry Godier

Sarah Gentile Mar 25

Data Rescue Project #DataRescue Mar 25

New DRP post: Help Protect At-Risk Humanitarian Archives. We aim to support a range of data rescue projects. This one from the Univ of Manchester is an incredible effort to recognize the loss of many small humanitarian archives. www.datarescueproject.org/humanitarian...

Help Protect At-Risk Humanitar...

Help Protect At-Risk Humanitarian Archives

In late 2025, members of the DRP Steering Committee traveled to the University of Manchester, UK, to attend the launch of the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) Project. As we have seen in the US over the past 15 months, digital archives, records, and datasets linked to humanitarian action and global

Data Rescue Project

Sarah Gentile Mar 18

MireilleNappert Mar 18

The Software Preservation Network (SPN) will be ending their activities in about a year. Thankfully, they will be taking the time to make sure the work done will not be lost.
Over the years, SPN has done great work to advance knowledge and capabilities towards software preservation. 💜
Still, it always comes backs to sustainability.

#digipres #softwarePreservation #softwareHeritage

https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/thoughtful-sunset-for-the-software-preservation-network/

Thoughtful Sunset for the Software Preservation Network | Software Preservation Network (SPN)

Sarah Gentile Mar 11

Digital Preservation Coalition Mar 6

#iPRES2026 fans, good news! The submissions deadline has been extended to 16 March 2026. Keep writing up your amazing #digitalpreservation work and get those contributions in! 🙌

#digipres #ipres #conference #CfC #community #preservation #horizon #copenhagen

Sarah Gentile Mar 2

John Mark Ockerbloom Mar 2

A number of pages and sites removed recently from .gov sites now have archives viewable at govarchive.us - just substitute "govarchive.us" for "gov" in the URL that doesn't seem to work any more, and see what you find! https://govarchive.us/ #c4l26

Webrecorder US Government Web Archive

Selected archives from the Webrecorder US Government Web Archive

Webrecorder

Sarah Gentile Feb 24

Anyone notice digitalpreservation.gov is down and has an internal server error? #digipres

Sarah Gentile Feb 23

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 22

Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/rent-only-copyright-culture-makes-us-all-worse

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off

In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it, even preserving it for your own use inevitably requires copying. Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media, US copyright law has pretty much lost the plot.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Sarah Gentile Feb 14

Michael L. Nelson Feb 14

Hussam Hallak @[email protected] of @[email protected] describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @[email protected] ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

2026-02-12: How to archive web...

2026-02-12: How to archive web pages in bulk using the Internet Archive Google Sheets service

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

Sarah Gentile Feb 14

petersuber Feb 11

The Federal Depository Library Program (#FDLP) is calling for public comments on a draft new #preservation policy for US govt public information.
https://fdlp.gov/news/request-comments-draft-preservation-policy

PS: This is especially important when the #Trump admin is taking down public info, including publicly-funded research, and private data-rescue projects struggle to capture it all.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Libraries #RFI #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #USPol #USPolitics