September 4, 2023

TorrentFreak: TV Museum Will Die in 48 Hours Unless Sony Retracts YouTube Copyright Strikes

TorrentFreak: TV Museum Will Die in 48 Hours Unless Sony Retracts YouTube Copyright Strikes. “Rick Klein and his team have been preserving TV adverts, forgotten tapes, and decades-old TV programming for years. Now operating as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, the Museum of Classic Chicago Television has called YouTube home since 2007. However, copyright notices sent on behalf of Sony, protecting TV shows between 40 and 60 years old, could shut down the project in 48 hours.”

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August 21, 2023

North Shore News: One YouTuber is saving and sharing Vancouver TV from the 80s and 90s

North Shore News: One YouTuber is saving and sharing Vancouver TV from the 80s and 90s. “The nostalgia of 80s and 90s TV in Vancouver is being preserved on a YouTube channel. RetroVancouver, run by Dax Sorrenti, has become the home to commercials and clips from the pre-Internet decades that many remember but may not be able to find online. Sorrenti says he runs the account to give people a chance to relive memories and the feeling of being younger.”

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August 3, 2023

Independent: TV archive boss says lost Doctor Who episodes are ‘out there’ – but collectors refuse to share them

Independent: TV archive boss says lost Doctor Who episodes are ‘out there’ – but collectors refuse to share them. “Chris Perry, CEO of the TV archive organisation Kaleidoscope, has now told Radio Times that the lost episodes – featuring William Hartnell as the first Doctor and Patrick Troughton as the second – are known to still exist in some form. However, the collectors in possession of the lost episodes are said to be refusing to share the broadcasts with the world.”

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August 1, 2023

GeekWire: Paul Allen estate donates thousands of rare music, film and sci-fi artifacts to Seattle’s MoPOP

GeekWire: Paul Allen estate donates thousands of rare music, film and sci-fi artifacts to Seattle’s MoPOP. “Thousands of one-of-a-kind artifacts from Paul Allen’s collection, spanning decades of cultural relevance, are headed to Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, the institution he helped found 23 years ago. The bequest by the estate of the late Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist comes just under five years since his death in October 2018 at the age of 65.”

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July 23, 2023

Man of Many: The Best Barbenheimer Memes on the Internet

Man of Many: The Best Barbenheimer Memes on the Internet. “The Monster High doll to Robbie’s all-American girl-next-door, Oppenheimer is everything that Barbie isn’t: dark, brooding and strangely loaded with sex scenes. On paper, the two feel like opposing entities but if the marketing run has taught us anything, it’s that the rise of Barbie-core and the demise of the atomic-core make for a pretty juicy double feature.” Well documented, plenty of memes — a step up from most meme roundups.

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July 13, 2023

Hackaday: Recreating The Golden Era Of Cable TV

Hackaday: Recreating The Golden Era Of Cable TV. “[Irish Craic Party] has gone to great lengths here to recreate the feel of cable TV from decades ago. It has recreations of real channels like HBO, Nickelodeon, and FX including station-appropriate bumpers and commercials. It’s also synchronized to the clock so shows start on the half- or quarter-hour. Cartoons play on Saturday morning, and Nickelodeon switches to Nick-at-Nite in the evenings.” Wow.

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July 8, 2023

Washington Post: How an AI-written Star Wars story created chaos at Gizmodo

Washington Post: How an AI-written Star Wars story created chaos at Gizmodo. “Gizmodo’s error-plagued test speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news. Several reporters and editors said they don’t trust chatbots to create well-reported and thoroughly fact-checked articles. They fear business leaders want to thrust the technology into newsrooms with insufficient caution. When trials go poorly, it ruins employee morale as well as the reputation of the outlet, they argue.”

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May 9, 2023

The Verge: How to avoid spoilers online

The Verge: How to avoid spoilers online. “To protect myself, I’ve cobbled together a few tools and solutions that I’d like to share with you. Hopefully, they will help you avoid spoilers for Zelda or the game, show, or movie, etc. of your choice. But as I’ll discuss a bit later on, there’s no way you can completely guarantee you can avoid spoilers, so be vigilant out there.”

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May 8, 2023

NiemanLab: How archivists are working to capture not just tapes of old TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together

NiemanLab: How archivists are working to capture not just tapes of old TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together. “Even today, more Americans use standard AM/FM radio broadcasting than TikTok. At a time when most Americans get their news from local TV stations and broadcast television networks, and radio remains pervasive, it might seem frivolous to express concern about preserving technologies so deeply embedded in daily life. Yet a media evolution is occurring, as paid subscription video streaming and audio services climb in popularity, and fewer Americans are consistently tuning in to broadcast media.”

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May 2, 2023

Striking Writers Rally On Social Media; “Don’t Believe The Spin That’s Already Coming Out. We’re Going To Fight” (Deadline)

Deadline: Striking Writers Rally On Social Media; “Don’t Believe The Spin That’s Already Coming Out. We’re Going To Fight”. “Minutes after the Writers Guild of America declared it was on strike, members lit up social media with vows to stay strong as they prepare to hit the picket lines on Tuesday.”

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April 28, 2023

Deadline: The Roddenberry Archive & OTOY Unveil New Virtual ‘Star Trek’ Experience Allowing Trekkies To Examine Every Evolution Of The Starship Enterprise Bridge & Even Walk Across It

Deadline: The Roddenberry Archive & OTOY Unveil New Virtual ‘Star Trek’ Experience Allowing Trekkies To Examine Every Evolution Of The Starship Enterprise Bridge & Even Walk Across It. “The web portal will allow fans to virtually explore the many dozens of evolutionary iterations of the famous Starship Enterprise bridge, across every epoch of Star Trek‘s history, with each bridge made accessible in the timeline as a 1:1 scale, ‘in-universe,’ 360 recreation.”

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April 10, 2023

Engadget: Museum creates giant ‘Donkey Kong’ cabinet with a little help from Nintendo

Engadget: Museum creates giant ‘Donkey Kong’ cabinet with a little help from Nintendo. “The Strong National Museum of Play in New York unveiled an absolutely massive Donkey Kong arcade cabinet that’s nearly 20 feet tall. Donkey Kong is co-starring in the biggest movie in the world right now, so it is only fitting that he also gets an equally gargantuan arcade cabinet.”

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April 10, 2023

New York Times: On TikTok, ‘The Hunger Games’ is a metaphor for our modern dystopia

New York Times: On TikTok, ‘The Hunger Games’ is a metaphor for our modern dystopia. “A lot has changed since The Hunger Games peaked in popularity, making it ripe for re-examination. Many of those partaking in the resurgence are revisiting the series for the first time as adults grappling with the climate crisis, social upheaval, and a global pandemic. How do our 2023 adult sensibilities transform our understanding of a beloved childhood franchise?”

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