Congrats Brewster!

The UTNE Reader is out with their list of “50 Visionaries Changing Our World” and Brewster Kahle from the Internet Archive and Open Content Alliance is on the list. You can Brewster’s entry here and review the entire list here.

His entry includes a link to a Slate article about Kahle from 2005 and a SF Chronicle article also from 2005.

The Internet Archive is not only home to the essential The Wayback Machine but it’s also home to over 1 million digitized books, thousands of hours of music*** and film. The Internet Archive also runs the Archive-IT program that works with numerous organizations to archive their specific content.

*** The Internet Archive is home to two music collections. The first contains live music and the other features a wide variety of audio including audiobooks and poetry.

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