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back-up at Mastodon&Bluesky
by Laura N 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Dear colleagues: By talking to Sharon, she was also surprised that no one answered my previous request. According to her, "the problem with the Books I'd Like to See topic (where I posted) is that posts are quickly buried by newer posts, so if you want people to see it, as in this case, a new topic is probably best." You can see my new request here: PG social media opportunity <https://www.pgdp.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=1360866#p1360866> LindaH will also add a note in her next GM report. We are getting older, we must ensure continuity in our social media. Thanks for your support Laura

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Announcement about MARC
by Greg Newby 08 Mar '25

08 Mar '25

This should be a good item to add to our social media feeds: https://ebookfoundation.org/pgmarc.html The PG page describing it (will be updated in a few minutes): https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/offline_catalogs.html Thanks! Greg

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share button
by Laura N 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Dear colleagues: Please see below a suggestion made by Lisa (Leebot) at DP´s forum: Linking to Bluesky #1 Post by Leebot » 14 Nov 2024 17:30 Hi PGers! Since many Twitter/X users are leaving in droves, flocking over to Jack Dorsey's other creation (Bluesky Social), I am wondering if PG could be sure to add a "share button" on the various book main pages? Thank you! Lisa I wonder if it's possible to add a share button for Mastodon as well. In addition, Eric already implemented news feeds of news books at Bluesky. It'll be nice to have them at our website, see below: News feeds at Bluesky <https://bsky.app/profile/new.gutenberg.org> Thanks for considering it. Laura

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ppg in the news
by Eric Hellman 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-sud… Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral 404media.co Eric Hellman President, Free Ebook Foundation http://ebookfoundation.org <http://ebookfoundation.org/> https://bsky.app/profile/gluejar.com

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Fwd: [posted] Posted (#75000, O'Connor) !
by Greg Newby 31 Dec '24

31 Dec '24

FYI, #75000 is a big milestone number! ~ Greg

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Fwd: (New Project...): Your Page doesn’t qualify for recommendation
by Greg Newby 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

Does anyone know what this might be about? ~ Greg

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Bluesky for new book postings?
by Greg Newby 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

Hi all. How has Bluesky uptake been? Eric is doing some updates this month, and could add new book postings to Bluesky if desired. Thanks, Greg

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Partial temporary outage of www.gutenberg.org
by Greg Newby 30 Nov '24

30 Nov '24

Hi friends. FYI we have a partial website outage that might persist until after the weekend. The UNC iBiblio nameserver isn't working right, and their domain registrar needs to help fix it. Last night, I manually made some updates to use IP addresses rather than hostnames. That got searches and landing pages up again. Our statistics (top 10 etc.) will remain broken because we cannot get our log files. Database backups, including the frequent synchronization to pglaf.org (used for some of our posting activities) are failing. I'll try to put some more workarounds in place today, but I don't have administrative access to our servers so am limited in what I can do. I'm updating the message on the main page of https://www.gutenberg.org. We can continue to push new books and errata, but automated cataloging will probably not work and the cataloger's interface probably won't work. We might need to repush once things are fixed. If it looks like newly pushed titles are dysfunctional, we might need to pause those. Let's see what happens with our next new push... ~ Greg

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Facebook new account restricted
by Eric Hellman 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

It seems that Facebook has restricted a post from yesterday. I'm not sure which book triggered that, but the admin panel says that an admin challenged it and the challenge was rejected? Looking at our website, I'm betting that that the offending book was "My autobiography" by Benito Mussolini. As I understand it, gutenberg_new will be able to post books for a month. I suggest that our other accounts should alert users to the suspension (referring to the book be number, not with a link). Eric

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Michael Hart cartoon image
by Greg Newby 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Hi team. The attached image was forwarded by Marie Lebert, and seems it might be fun to put on our social media feeds. Potential blurb: Caricature of Michael Hart by Denis Renard. Featured in the History of eBooks comic, https://archive.org/details/history-ebooks-drawings More information about Danis is online at http://planchetdessins.canalblog.com/ Thanks for considering. I'll put this in the next newsletter, too. ~ Greg ----- Forwarded message from marie lebert <marie.lebert(a)gmail.com> ----- From: marie lebert <marie.lebert(a)gmail.com> To: Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> Subject: Re: Michael seen by Denis Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:17:50 +1100 Dear Greg, Denis' preferred link is his website: http://planchetdessins.canalblog.com/ He is a French comic/graphic book artist living in Normandy. This drawing was originally part of this ebook (page 2): https://archive.org/details/history-ebooks-drawings All the best, Marie On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 at 11:19, Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> wrote: > Thanks for this, Marie. It's a nice likeness. > > Does Denis have a link or social media we could include? > I'd like to ask our social media team to consider posting it. > > Best, > Greg > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 03:21:57AM +1100, marie lebert wrote: > > Dear Greg, > > > > Here is Michael Hart seen by my friend Denis Renard, who is a > comic/graphic > > book artist. > > > > You are welcome to use the picture attached. > > > > Denis can also provide a high-resolution picture if needed. > > > > I am writing on Denis' behalf because he is not fluent in English. > > > > All the best, > > > > Marie > > > ----- End forwarded message -----

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