The Wire takes a tour of the British Library’s Sound Archive, deep below its London residences on the Euston Road, to talk about sound conservation…
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To most consumers it is common sense that they can make a backup copy of media they own, but in the UK this is currently…
Boys in the late 1970s probably assumed the girls comic Misty was all boring romance, puppies and ponies. How wrong they were. They were full of…
So, the Brits are creating a massive digital archive. Sure, you’ll be able to access it “online” but only from certain locations. “Its not a…
For those that keep insisting “filters are smarter than they used to be…” Among the sites TalkTalk blocked as “pornographic” was BishUK.com, an award-winning British sex…
I don’t generally post rumors but this would certainly be amazing if true. What I’ve been hearing, and some of it is attributed to an…
This week’s podcast heads into strange territory, guided by the Books site’s editor-for-a-day, Neil Gaiman. First, we follow Damien Walter on the trail of Weird…
I’m a big fan of the work of Christopher Priest. Many US readers will only be aware of him through a little movie titled The Prestige, based on…
Yes, a government Web site has been awarded a design prize! …at a ceremony in London, the site was named the 2013 Best Design of…
You can read the press release over on io9. But I just want to point out that it looks like the new version, beyond giving…