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As entries pour in for our remix contest with the Prelinger Archives, we thought you might be interested to learn more about where the digitized portion of the Prelinger collection is housed, the Internet Archive. Brewster Kahle, the founder and digital librarian of The Internet Archive (archive.org), was our guest on Radio Free Culture June 25th, 2012. He was interviewed by Ken Freedman, WFMU's station manager.
Radio Free Culture is a series on WFMU and the Free Music Archive where we focus on digital culture and issues like net neutrality and piracy, digital rights, archives, libraries in the internet, all with WFMU’s own particular digital viewpoint.
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As entries pour in for our remix contest with the Prelinger Archives, we thought you might be interested to learn more about where the digitized portion of the Prelinger collection is housed, the Internet Archive. Brewster Kahle, the founder and digital librarian of The Internet Archive (archive.org), was our guest on Radio Free Culture June 25th, 2012. He was interviewed by Ken Freedman, WFMU's station manager.
Radio Free Culture is a series on WFMU and the Free Music Archive where we focus on digital culture and issues like net neutrality and piracy, digital rights, archives, libraries in the internet, all with WFMU’s own particular digital viewpoint.
Transcript
Ken: Welcome to "Radio Free Culture." I’m very, very excited to have with me. Let’s start off by introducing the thing that you do which is, for lack of a better way, trying to get a copy of just about every piece of information in the world. Is that right?
Brewster: Yeah. The idea is to try to build the Library of Alexandria, Version 2. You can basically build a world where if anybody’s curious enough [they] can have access to the books, music, video, anything that’s ever been produced, anywhere, anytime. And I think that’s one of the promises of the internet and the Internet Archive is trying to play a role in that.
Ken: And have you surpassed The Library of Alexandria? In terms of how much information it had?
Brewster: Well they say that they had 300,000 scrolls back in 300 BC but it was about 75% of all of the books ever written, whether it was in Egyptian, or Greek, or the...
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shangri-La | Yacht | Shangri-La (Instrumentals). | DFA Records | 2011 | 04:57 |
