American Archive of Public Broadcasting: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting Preserves 2,000 Le Show Programs for the Nation

American Archive of Public Broadcasting: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting Preserves 2,000 Le Show Programs for the Nation. “This December, to mark the fortieth anniversary of celebrated actor, author, director, musician, political satirist and broadcaster Harry Shearer’s weekly hour-long public radio series Le Show, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaboration between the Library of Congress and Boston public media producer GBH, is launching the Le Show Collection, a publicly accessible digital archive of more than 2,000 hours of broadcasts, stretching back over the past four decades.”

The New Stack: Big Data Simpsons

From The New Stack, with a hat tip to Angela G.: Big Data Simpsons. “Thanks to the work of Benjamin M. Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, 25 years of dialogue from The Simpsons have been smashed into a giant data set, connected to a user-friendly search window.”