09:05 am
A bit more on the topic of “web archives and news media”:
- The Tehran Times website has been up for only a few minutes a day in recent weeks (I don’t know if this is related to the military action or to new Western sanctions against Arvan Cloud—since, at least, the edge nodes aren’t in Iran), so web archives are essentially the only place where you can read it 24/7. There’s also a Telegram channel, but it lacks longreads.
- New media outlets (the substack generation) are reluctant to link to old media because they can’t add referral IDs and earn a percentage of sales, like in e-commerce and adult industries. Archives, of course, don’t pay either, but some authors prefer linking archives anyway, just to spite greedy tabloids, much like it was on Gamergate. There’s probably a niche here for something like Readly—a site that republishes other’s articles behind its own paywall and pays revshare.
