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Friday Video: British Library Sound Archive
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Friday Video: British Library Sound Archive

Posted on January 16, 2015January 16, 2015 by Michael Sauers

https://vimeo.com/74616017 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…

Politics & Law

UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Michael Sauers

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…

Books

British Library staging exhibition of comics in ‘overdue’ celebration of genre

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Michael Sauers

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…

Libraries

UK Digital Archive Access Fail

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

Politics & Law

UK porn filters block sex education websites

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

Fun

Rumor: More missing Doctor Who episodes found

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

Audio

Neil Gaiman’s Guardian Books podcast: Weird London and the future for writers

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

Books

Word cloud on a book

Posted on April 26, 2013April 26, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

Internet

GOV.UK named the best design of the year

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

Fun

New Blakes 7 coming to SyFy

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

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