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At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council an...

Members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. Brewster kahle, what you do for living . I run the archives. Internet library on the internet that catalogs books, trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. That sounds like the internet. Doesnt it . Guest the internet is getting there but the published works is not fast enough. The average life of a webpage is only 100 days. Before it is changed or deleted. One hundred days. We built our cul...

There. The life a webpage is 100 days. This takes snapshots of webpages, done it since 1976, and called the way back machine on archives. Org. You can find things that disappeared either maliciously or sometimes they just drop off the net. How many websites are there today . Hundreds of millions. Theyre sort of coming and going all of the time. We collect about 800 million pages every day. The total collection is about 800 billion u. R. L. s. Its kind of huge. That turns out to only be part of w...

Host the committee the co is that the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. Were going to share some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. So brewster kahle, what you do for living . Guest i run the internet archives, Internet Library onto internet the gives way books, music, video webpages, software for free trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. Host that sounds like the interne...

That gives away software for free, trying to build the ofernet into the Library Alexandria for the digital age. Peter that sounds like the internet, doesnt it . Brewster the internet is getting there, but the average life of a webpage is only 100 days before it is changed or deleted. Peter 100 days . Brewster so weve built our culture on ever shifting sand. The archive takes a snapshot of the webpages on websites every two months. Snapshot, snapshot. Its been doing it since 1996 and offers it as...

Announcer 1 next, in American History tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits lansing, michigan, where we learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight is now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more of our visit at cspan. Org citiestour. He was a pioneer. State not until the legislature designated this area as the new capital that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. They had a slightly more sensible app...

Lansings beginning. Established the 1836. In about they designated detroit is the capital, but they were fearful that detroit could be easily attacked from lake erie, and that they should move the capital inland. They could not decide where. They put in the constitution the first session of the legislature of 1848 should be held in the new capital, which should be inland. They had 10 years to decide. They waited until they had 10 months left. Every little town in the whole state wanted it to be ...

Coming up well talk with authors based here as we fir learn how the city was chosen as the states capital, and anyone 15 minutes the story of re olds and the auto company he founded in lapsing and then later well take a driving tour of the citys downtown. We begin our special feature as hear about james turner and the found offering lansing. The founding of lansing. James turner was pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature designated this area as the new capital that he came with these othe...

Elizabeth homer explains how the to learn about pioneer james turner in his role in getting the city ready for the legislatures arrival. James turner was pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature designated this area as the new capital that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. State had a slightly more expected, i approach. We had nothing here. There was no transportation. They had several months to build the capital city. That was the very interesting, exciting and u...

With support from our Comcast Cable partners this weekend we travel to lansing michigan. Coming up we will talk with authors base year as we first learn how the city was chosen as the state capital and then about 15 minutes the story of arby olds and the auto Company Founded in lansing and later we take a driving tour of the citys downtown. We begin our special feature as we hear about james turner and the founding of lansing. James turner was a pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature desi...