Jeff Ubois is Archiving TV for the Future

Ponzi just so happened to have our recording equipment with her when she attended a party held by our friend, Dave Winer. One other guest happened to be none other than Jeff Ubois – who is working to archive every single broadcast, past and present, for our own future:

Television remains the most powerful medium in our culture, but we have almost no memory for it: it is a transient, ephemeral, and therefore unaccountable medium. This site exists to accelerate the transformation of television into a medium that has a history, one that is permanently preserved, searchable, and accessible.

Advances in computing and communications mean that we can cost-effectively store broadcast, and provide access to a video collections via the Internet to students and adults all over the world. By working with existing institutions and funding sources, and creating new ones, we can provide universal access to this portion of our culture within the current worldwide library budget, just as we have done that with other media.