Comments for Internet Archive Blogs https://blog.archive.org A blog from the team at archive.org Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:17:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 Comment on Shut Out by Distributors, Filmmaker Turns to Internet Archive to Share Documentary with the World by Jonathan Hasford https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/15/hacking-at-leaves/#comment-537455 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:17:36 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29326#comment-537455 In reply to Joseph.

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So this article is about a documentary either so bad or so uninteresting no one wanted to distribute it so it got dumped here for free?
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I have seen this documentary and I would not say it is a matter of it being bad or uninteresting, but rather, being very different; Hacking at Leaves is not a neat, linear story. It covers a lot of ground, and there aren’t any clear-cut Bad Guys to boo or contrast yourself with so that will you walk away from the experience feeling a Superior Person.

When someone is running a film festival and is tasked with screening (or selling) documentaries, the tendency is to want films that fall neatly into a particular category so viewers know what they can expect. If there’s one category this film falls into, it is, “How Native American peoples have been treated badly for centuries and continue to be treated badly right up through the Present Day.”

Unfortunately, there is a limited market for films about Native Americans to begin with. There is an even more limited one for films that don’t leave you feeling wonderful at the end, but rather, deeply depressed about how these same groups have, once again, been given the Dirty End of the Stick.

In short, it is a movie that deals with a subject few are interested in and deals with it in a nuanced, painstaking way. It does not leave the viewer feeling better, but rather, perplexed and (very probably) angry about how something so stupid and wrong could still continue to happen.

(However, please do not take my word for it: you can view it for free and make up your *own* mind about what the film is all about.)

]]> Comment on Shut Out by Distributors, Filmmaker Turns to Internet Archive to Share Documentary with the World by Joseph https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/15/hacking-at-leaves/#comment-537439 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:05:43 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29326#comment-537439 So this article is about a documentary either so bad or so uninteresting no one wanted to distribute it so it got dumped here for free?

]]> Comment on Calling All Libraries: Celebrate 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived with the Internet Archive by André https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/calling-all-libraries-celebrate-1-trillion-web-pages-archived-with-the-internet-archive/#comment-537248 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:11:59 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29417#comment-537248 Mr. Kahle truly is the Dr. Jack Bellifer of the Internet.

]]> Comment on Shut Out by Distributors, Filmmaker Turns to Internet Archive to Share Documentary with the World by Nanette Ward https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/15/hacking-at-leaves/#comment-537228 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:18:53 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29326#comment-537228 PPS: Herr Grenzfurthner,
Your survivor in the positive air banana suit does not have his/her sleeves taped to his/her gloves. Even at the 9/11/2001 “crash site” in Pennsylvania, people started showing up in banana suits … with the average Joe having no idea what that sight meant. Those of us in the nuke field know very well…

Vielen dank,
Nanette
USA

]]> Comment on Shut Out by Distributors, Filmmaker Turns to Internet Archive to Share Documentary with the World by Nanette Ward https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/15/hacking-at-leaves/#comment-537225 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:12:13 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29326#comment-537225 Velen danken, herr Johannes Grenzfurthner!!!

Nanette
USA

PS: Many other reservations & close areas have noxious to toxic to lethal elements and ores extracted on their lands as we – even the Tonoho o’Odom, southeast of Tucson.
‘Phoenix Energy’ is already bragging about drilling/fracking in ND & SD (read Lakotas & Sioux lands) and Montana – on National Parks land!! We all know when there are Superfund sites to clean up – ‘Phoenix Energy’ will be long gone.

]]> Comment on Calling All Libraries: Celebrate 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived with the Internet Archive by ustai7780 https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/calling-all-libraries-celebrate-1-trillion-web-pages-archived-with-the-internet-archive/#comment-537091 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:33:03 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29417#comment-537091 I really liked your point about how technology supports personalized learning. It shows how powerful digital innovation is, something we also see in entertainment platforms such as Hengongbet .

]]> Comment on Peer-to-Peer Fundraising at the Internet Archive by Ustai https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/02/peer-to-peer-fundraising-at-the-internet-archive/#comment-537090 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:32:12 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29402#comment-537090 I really liked your point about how technology supports personalized learning. It shows how powerful digital innovation is, something we also see in entertainment platforms such as Hengongbet .

]]> Comment on Peer-to-Peer Fundraising at the Internet Archive by Elinor Benjamin https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/02/peer-to-peer-fundraising-at-the-internet-archive/#comment-536781 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:32:50 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29402#comment-536781 Hello
I already give a small monthly donation, Since I get a small SS check from years I worked in the USA I can claim it on my Canadian Income tax. Is there some way to set up a little campaign in Canada so I can let people get a Canadian tax reciept. I will post a reminder on my FB and Bluesky pages
Thank you for all you do. I am an oral storyteller and a retired librarian. I also keep reminding people how vital it is to support the archive in this time of attempted history erasure.
Sincerely

]]> Comment on Calling All Libraries: Celebrate 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived with the Internet Archive by J14B3 https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/calling-all-libraries-celebrate-1-trillion-web-pages-archived-with-the-internet-archive/#comment-535947 Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:43:07 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29417#comment-535947 Was introduced in 2010 and it has been a fantastic resource. Thanks so much for all of the awesome work and efforts!

]]> Comment on Calling All Libraries: Celebrate 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived with the Internet Archive by Jeff stafford https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/calling-all-libraries-celebrate-1-trillion-web-pages-archived-with-the-internet-archive/#comment-535859 Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:26:15 +0000 https://blog.archive.org/?p=29417#comment-535859 Have not been able to connect the the archive for two days, what is wrong?

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