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The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights – Literary Hub
The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Gioia Woods Reflects on the Life of a Literary Icon, Via The University of Nevada Press By Gioia Woods, February 6, 2026 I discovered City Lights Bookstore in 1983. I was a high school sophomore in east Los Angeles on a campus so…
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Mozilla building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on OpenAI, Anthropic – CNBC
Tech Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavyweights OpenAI, Anthropic Published Tue, Jan 27 202612:00 PM EST, Updated Tue, Jan 27 20265:53 PM EST By Ashley Capoot@/in/ashley-capoot/ Key Points Mark Surman, president of Mozilla Foundation, speaks at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York City, U.S.,…
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The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting – HackerNoon
New Story, 1,290 reads The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting by Bruce Li, January 12th, 2026 A Comprehensive Engineering and Operational Analysis of the Internet Archive Introduction: The Hum of History in the Fog If you stand quietly in the nave of the former Christian Science church on…
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S.F. Public Library’s main ebook provider to shut down – San Francisco Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Public Library’s main ebook service is suddenly shutting down By Aidin Vaziri, Staff WriterUpdated Nov 17, 2025 5:50 p.m. Editor’s note: There is an audio file in the online article, I cannot include here. –DrWeb San Francisco’s library patrons are about to lose access to one of their most-used ebook…
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Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored – CNN Business
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved By Hadas Gold, Updated 23 hr ago See inside the old San Francisco church that houses nearly all of the internet’s history… San Francisco — Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge,…
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One Trillion Web Pages Archived: Internet Archive Celebrates a Civilization-Scale Milestone | Internet Archive Blogs
Internet Archive Blogs, Updates from the Internet Archive One Trillion Web Pages Archived: Internet Archive Celebrates a Civilization-Scale Milestone Posted on October 31, 2025 by Caralee Adams One trillion! There was no mistaking the number that was center stage at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on October 22. “We are celebrating a major goal…
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Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library | Internet Archive Blogs
Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library Posted on July 24, 2025 by Chris Freeland Announced today, the Internet Archive has been designated as a federal depository library by Senator Alex Padilla. The designation was made via letter to Scott Matheson, Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Publishing Office. Senator Padilla explained the…
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Young San Franciscans aren’t drinking at bars. They’re at the library
Opinion // Emily Hoeven Young San Franciscans aren’t going to bars. They’re hanging at the library Is it any surprise that young people like me are forgoing moody bars for free books when a glass of wine can set you back $20? By Emily Hoeven, Opinion Columnist, Aug 16, 2025 San Francisco Main Library, photographed…
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How San Franciscans use their libraries is shifting dramatically | San Francisco Chronicle
By Nami Sumida, Dec. 31, 2022 With library buildings closed, book talks moved online and millions of fewer items checked out, the pandemic transformed San Francisco’s public libraries. Two and a half years later, all library branches are now open and operating at pre-COVID hours and circulation has nearly bounced back from its pandemic low.…
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The Bay Area is still a literary haven from the mad digital world – San Francisco Chronicle
Chances are that you have because you live in the Bay Area, where books continue to beckon readers, despite the insistent siren calls of digital media. Independent bookstores have found new life, even in the growing shadow of Amazon; festivals, readings and book clubs continue to proliferate; and authors are still managing to make the…
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36 Hours in San Francisco – Video – NYTimes.com
In a city that’s constantly reinventing itself, San Francisco has endless offerings, from bowling in the Mission to diversions on the waterfront, not to mention creative restaurants and bars. Source: 36 Hours in San Francisco – Video – NYTimes.com
