Michael L. Nelson
@phonedudemln.bsky.social
Professor & Eminent Scholar, Old Dominion University
Web Science & Digital Libraries Group (WS-DL)
Dept of Computer Science
School of Data Science
Virginia Modeling, Simulation & Analysis Center (VMASC)
Office of Enterprise Research & Innovation (OERI)
Web Science & Digital Libraries Group (WS-DL)
Dept of Computer Science
School of Data Science
Virginia Modeling, Simulation & Analysis Center (VMASC)
Office of Enterprise Research & Innovation (OERI)
Reposted by Michael L. Nelson
From @cnn.com: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved | CNN Business
The Internet Archive has been saving web history for nearly 30 years. CNN’s Hadas Gold goes inside its headquarters to see how the archive is innovating for the AI age and protecting itself from both ...
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
From @cnn.com: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trip report for the 2025 ACM Hypertext Conference #HT2025 @acmht.bsky.social
@webscidl.bsky.social PhD students Tarannum Zaki, Rochana Obadage, & Dominik Soos and alumni @machawk1.bsky.social & @ibnesayeed.bsky.social attended in September, 2025.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...
@webscidl.bsky.social PhD students Tarannum Zaki, Rochana Obadage, & Dominik Soos and alumni @machawk1.bsky.social & @ibnesayeed.bsky.social attended in September, 2025.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...
2025-11-12: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025) Trip Report
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Trip report for the 2025 ACM Hypertext Conference #HT2025 @acmht.bsky.social
@webscidl.bsky.social PhD students Tarannum Zaki, Rochana Obadage, & Dominik Soos and alumni @machawk1.bsky.social & @ibnesayeed.bsky.social attended in September, 2025.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...
@webscidl.bsky.social PhD students Tarannum Zaki, Rochana Obadage, & Dominik Soos and alumni @machawk1.bsky.social & @ibnesayeed.bsky.social attended in September, 2025.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...
Reposted by Michael L. Nelson
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Reposted by Michael L. Nelson
The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
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Kate Zwaard, CNI Director, will open the CNI meeting, followed by an overview of #AI and #ML in the #libraries and #InformationScience context from Ben Lee, founder of the Lab for Computing #CulturalHeritage. The list of preliminary project briefings is also now live. More to come! @bcgl.bsky.social
A First Look at the CNI Fall Meeting
With the CNI Fall Membership Meeting drawing near, it’s time to share a first glance at the program. I’m really looking forward to talking with you at our opening plenary on my appreciation for our…
www.cni.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Kate Zwaard, CNI Director, will open the CNI meeting, followed by an overview of #AI and #ML in the #libraries and #InformationScience context from Ben Lee, founder of the Lab for Computing #CulturalHeritage. The list of preliminary project briefings is also now live. More to come! @bcgl.bsky.social
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This is why we can’t have nice things
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is why we can’t have nice things
Reposted by Michael L. Nelson
Our October ODU-CS PhD Gathering featured a talk from my PhD student, Tarannum Zaki (@tarannum44.bsky.social), based on our ACM Hypertext 2025 paper, "Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots", preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2510.22939
@phonedudemln.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social
@phonedudemln.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Our October ODU-CS PhD Gathering featured a talk from my PhD student, Tarannum Zaki (@tarannum44.bsky.social), based on our ACM Hypertext 2025 paper, "Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots", preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2510.22939
@phonedudemln.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social
@phonedudemln.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social
Javed Ferdous of @webscidl.bsky.social has written a paper summary of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social ACM CHI 2025's
“‘As an Autistic Person Myself:’ The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs”
by Park, Min, Beltran, and Hayes.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
“‘As an Autistic Person Myself:’ The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs”
by Park, Min, Beltran, and Hayes.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
2025-10-28: Summary of "As an Autistic Person Myself:" The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in our lives.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Javed Ferdous of @webscidl.bsky.social has written a paper summary of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social ACM CHI 2025's
“‘As an Autistic Person Myself:’ The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs”
by Park, Min, Beltran, and Hayes.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
“‘As an Autistic Person Myself:’ The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs”
by Park, Min, Beltran, and Hayes.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
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Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
[Short thread]
[Short thread]
Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within
online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be
''objective'', data visualizations ...
dl.acm.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
[Short thread]
[Short thread]
To study Twitter is to study archived Twitter. And if you're replaying archived pages, you need to be familiar with the different generations of UIs.
Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
2025-10-26: Exploring the Different Generations of Twitter/X's Tweet UI
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
To study Twitter is to study archived Twitter. And if you're replaying archived pages, you need to be familiar with the different generations of UIs.
Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
AlArabiyah's use of web archives to investigate the "NortaLink" (shell / fake company) web sites.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
2025-10-24: Investigative journalists at AlArabiyah use web archives in investigating Hezbollah leaders' assassination and 2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
AlArabiyah's use of web archives to investigate the "NortaLink" (shell / fake company) web sites.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
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LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?"
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Generational Data Interviews | Library Innovation Lab
14 Designs for Digital Preservation in 2025
lil.law.harvard.edu
October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?"
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Reposted by Michael L. Nelson
Was honoured to be part of this series, and to see so many thoughtful perspectives on this question! Check it out.
LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?"
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Generational Data Interviews | Library Innovation Lab
14 Designs for Digital Preservation in 2025
lil.law.harvard.edu
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Was honoured to be part of this series, and to see so many thoughtful perspectives on this question! Check it out.
"The world after robots.txt is already visible. Content creators are retreating behind technical barriers, Cloudflare is becoming the new gatekeeper of the internet, and the open web is fragmenting into licensed silos."
ht @hvdsomp.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
ht @hvdsomp.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"The world after robots.txt is already visible. Content creators are retreating behind technical barriers, Cloudflare is becoming the new gatekeeper of the internet, and the open web is fragmenting into licensed silos."
ht @hvdsomp.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
ht @hvdsomp.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Goodbye, goo.gl/0R8XX6.
1. I confirmed that goo.gl no longer redirects unlucky short URLs
2. hooray for @waybackmachine.bsky.social & archived redirects!
3. twist: different HTML 404 pages for deprecated vs. never valid short URLs!
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
1. I confirmed that goo.gl no longer redirects unlucky short URLs
2. hooray for @waybackmachine.bsky.social & archived redirects!
3. twist: different HTML 404 pages for deprecated vs. never valid short URLs!
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
2025-10-14: Goodbye, goo.gl/0R8XX6
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Goodbye, goo.gl/0R8XX6.
1. I confirmed that goo.gl no longer redirects unlucky short URLs
2. hooray for @waybackmachine.bsky.social & archived redirects!
3. twist: different HTML 404 pages for deprecated vs. never valid short URLs!
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
1. I confirmed that goo.gl no longer redirects unlucky short URLs
2. hooray for @waybackmachine.bsky.social & archived redirects!
3. twist: different HTML 404 pages for deprecated vs. never valid short URLs!
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
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Excited to share my internship experience with the @archive.org as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor!
✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
🙏 @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.
✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
🙏 @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.
2025-10-10: An Internship Experience With the Internet Archive as a Google Summer of Code Contributor
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Excited to share my internship experience with the @archive.org as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor!
✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
🙏 @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.
✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
🙏 @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.
Faculty search ODU Data Science:
Accelerator Science
Tenured, associate or full prof
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Accelerator Science
Tenured, associate or full prof
jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963
Faculty in Applications of Physics, Data Science and/or Engineering to Particle Accelerators (Tenured, F1117A
The Department of Physics and the Center for Accelerator Science at Old Dominion University invite applicants for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position (depending on experience) in Accelerato...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Faculty search ODU Data Science:
Accelerator Science
Tenured, associate or full prof
jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963
Accelerator Science
Tenured, associate or full prof
jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963
Faculty search ODU Data Science:
AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health
T/TT, open rank
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AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health
T/TT, open rank
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Faculty in Data Science (Tenure Track/Tenured, Position # F1050A)
The School of Data Science at Old Dominion University invites applicants for an open rank (Assistant/Associate/Full) as part of a multi-position hiring cluster aiming for the AI-Infused Autonomous Sys...
jobs.odu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Faculty search ODU Data Science:
AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24399
AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health
T/TT, open rank
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Faculty search ODU Data Science:
Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
T/TT, open rank
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Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241
Faculty in Data Sciences - Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
The School of Data Science at Old Dominion University invites applicants for an annual 10-month position at Assistant/Associate/Full Professor rank as part of a multi-position hiring cluster aiming fo...
jobs.odu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Faculty search ODU Data Science:
Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241
Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241
The Internet Archive @archive.org has an exciting slate of events lined up for their 29th anniversary, including hitting 1T archived pages!
Check out: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
Check out: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
October 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The Internet Archive @archive.org has an exciting slate of events lined up for their 29th anniversary, including hitting 1T archived pages!
Check out: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
Check out: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
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🌐 From the first web page created in 1991… to 1 trillion web pages archived today.
Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved.
Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved.
Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
October 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🌐 From the first web page created in 1991… to 1 trillion web pages archived today.
Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved.
Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved.
Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
Reposted by Michael L. Nelson
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Reposted by Michael L. Nelson
📣This #WebArchiveWednesday, plan your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP
🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15
#webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities
🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15
#webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities
September 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
📣This #WebArchiveWednesday, plan your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP
🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15
#webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities
🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15
#webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities