Ethan ⁽³²⁾

I don't need to be the umpteenth person to tell you, in dramatically vague terms, that cloud computing and software-as-a-service have (*Paul LaFontaine voice*) changed the very society we live in. But every now and then I am reminded that the Big Tech consolidation and…

Let's talk about Homebrew. No, not the beer-making technique that left you befuddled by the appearance of approximately two thousand quirky-named, identically-tasting IPAs at the liquor store. I mean the popular package manager for macOS. Homebrew is a beloved tool of digital preservation educators and…

This is a guest post written by Jeff Lauber, based on his paper originally written for a course on “Video Preservation” in NYU’s M.A. program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. Jeff is a media archivist based in New York City. He currently works as…

As we quickly approach the one-year anniversary of the last time I updated this blog, a couple things have become clear to me: I'm extremely proud of The Patch Bay back catalog, particularly the evergreen posts on time, color, and audio in analog video that…

I've always been amused by the way a certain professional field frequently goes out of its way to shout "we don't understand audio" to the world. (Association of Moving Image Archivists, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Moving Image Archive Studies, Museum of the Moving Image,…