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by asimm22
Wed Jul 16, 2025 5:22 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: Why Buying Email Lists Is Often a Bad Idea
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Views: 141

Why Buying Email Lists Is Often a Bad Idea

Have you ever gotten an email from someone you don't know? Maybe it was about a product you've never heard of. You probably deleted it right away, right? Or maybe you even marked it as spam. This is what happens when businesses buy email lists. They send emails to people who didn't ask for them ...
by asimm22
Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:29 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: Getting More Customers for Your HVAC Business
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Views: 37

Getting More Customers for Your HVAC Business

Imagine your HVAC business as a ship. For that ship to sail, it needs fuel. In the world of business, that fuel is customers. Without enough customers, your ship won't go anywhere. So, how do you get more people to choose you for their heating, ventilation, and air conditioning needs? This article ...
by asimm22
Sat Jul 12, 2025 6:31 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: The letter stated that the Internet
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Views: 10

The letter stated that the Internet

Dhrumil Mehta of FiveThirtyEight.com reported on the error exposed by the Internet Archive and the EFF–namely, the NSL incorrectly described the means for possible appeals of the gag order preventing an organization that has received such a letter from publicizing it. Mehta has filed a Freedom of ...
by asimm22
Sat Jul 12, 2025 6:15 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: The Internet Archive just signed up
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Views: 9

The Internet Archive just signed up

I have tried ricochet as an instant messaging client that secures who I am talking to via Tor, easy to use, but few I know use it, so I don’t use it often. I have tried encrypting my email using pgp via enigmail but have run into trouble with others being able to read it, so I do not encrypt email ...
by asimm22
Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:08 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: Professor Townsend Gard has just
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Views: 7

Professor Townsend Gard has just

Creative Commons founder, Larry Lessig fought the new law in court as unreasonable, unneeded, and ridiculous. In support of Lessig’s fight, the Internet Archive made an Internet bookmobile to celebrate what could be done with the public domain. We drove the bookmobile across the country to the ...
by asimm22
Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:52 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: Psion Chess is a game for the Macintosh
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Views: 7

Psion Chess is a game for the Macintosh

The truly weird “Conquer the Video Craze” is a 1982 record album with straightforward descriptions of how to beat games like Centipede, Defender, Stargate, Dig Dug, and more. This album has been sampled from by multiple DJs to bring that extra spice to a track.

Over 3,000 shows at the DNA Lounge ...
by asimm22
Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:01 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: How can you get involved
Replies: 0
Views: 5

How can you get involved

At an event at the Boston Public Library last month, Brewster Kahle, the Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, presented the digital files from the 50,000 sides to David Leonard, the President of the Boston Public Library. With the return of the digital files, BPL was able to unlock access to ...
by asimm22
Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:51 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: Radical Digital Painting is named
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Views: 5

Radical Digital Painting is named

The original binaries of Kid Pix and related digital ephemera are in the collections of the Internet Archive. As part of his practice, Scudder writes his own digital drawing and painting software, and has always wanted to meet Hickman. As part of his residency with the Internet Archive, he visited ...
by asimm22
Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:27 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: The Authors Alliance has several
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Views: 9

The Authors Alliance has several

Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke at a press conference about the copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive brought by the publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House. These are her remarks:


Good afternoon ...
by asimm22
Wed Jul 09, 2025 10:39 am
Forum: Canada Dataset
Topic: That this group of organisations
Replies: 0
Views: 15

That this group of organisations

They call for new preservation initiatives “to develop alternative pathways better suited for smaller journals that operate without the support of large, professional publishers.”

Answering that call, the joint initiative proposed by the five organisations aims at offering an affordable archiving ...