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Spam
by Paul Biba 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

Over the past weeks we've started getting spam comments on our Facebook page and I have been removing them and baning the senders. This is new as I've hardly gotten any spam comments since I started my tenure. Just an alert for you to keep your eyes open on anything you might moderate. Paul

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Website slowness returns
by Greg Newby 13 Jan '24

13 Jan '24

We've been working with iBiblio since Friday to try to figure out why www.gutenberg.org is so slow. Today, Saturday, it's often timing out and is pretty unusable. This the same problem we've been having off and on for a couple of months. I put a notice on the main page: Website slowdowns. The website has been slow and sometimes unresponsive since Friday January 12. We are working with iBiblio, our hosting provider, to remedy the situation. Problems might persist throughout the weekend. Apologies for this disruption. Unfortunately the iBiblio folks don't offer much weekend support. I've been trying to press them to figure things out but without much luck. ~ Greg Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive and Director Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation www.gutenberg.org A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with EIN 64-6221541 gbnewby(a)pglaf.org

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PG’s website
by Laura N 26 Dec '23

26 Dec '23

It seems that our website is getting slower once again. I am getting a lot of timeout error connection. Laura

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Fwd: Facebook
by Greg Newby 10 Dec '23

10 Dec '23

Paul & Eric: can you take a look? Thanks! Greg ----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> ----- From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> To: help2023(a)pglaf.org Subject: Facebook Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:07:57 -0600 Something is munging the new book announcements on facebook. They aren't showing covers, and some aren't even showing the title. Not complaining, you can't fix it if you don't know. -- Jonathan ----- End forwarded message -----

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Lotta Mastodon followers lately!
by Greg Newby 04 Nov '23

04 Nov '23

Laura, you might already be getting these notifications. I've seen 50 "follower" notifications over the past 24 hours, and am now getting a new follower notification every few minutes! Clearly you are doing a great job of keeping things interesting! It looks like we have 16K followers. That's super! ~ Greg

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Fwd: Featured article
by Greg Newby 28 Oct '23

28 Oct '23

Of potential interest for our social media feeds. The author linked to our banned books collection and recommended PG as a way of accessing censored books:

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Fwd: TIME’s List of the Best Inventions of 2023 is Now Live!
by Greg Newby 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

For widespread dissemination. Microsoft will also be putting this on their social media feeds: please amplify when they do. Our article is here: https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2023/6324762/project-gutenberg-… You should also include links such as: Customer Story: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1646266241611394912-project-gut… TIME 200 List: time.com/best-inventions-2023 Project Page: https://aka.ms/audiobook Interspeech 2023 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03926 and of course www.gutenberg.org Thanks! ~ Greg

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Facebook account problems?
by Paul Biba 24 Oct '23

24 Oct '23

Is something wrong with our Facebook account? I can't upload a post as I get a "something went wrong" error message. This happens with Chrome, Firefox, Brave and Safari, all on the Mac as well as on a Chromebook. If I try it on my iPad with the Business Suite app I get a "there was an error fetching data" message. This has been going on for about 4 days. Tried logging out and in but no joy. I have a backlog of posts up so we're OK for a while but this is most disturbing. Paul

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Fwd: Google Alert - "Greg Newby"
by Greg Newby 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

This is a nice article - the writer did some homework and took a broad approach: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply(a)google.com> Date: Wed., Sep. 27, 2023, 9:00 a.m. Subject: Google Alert - "Greg Newby" To: <gbnewby(a)petascale.org> [image: Google] <https://www.google.com/alerts?source=alertsmail&hl=en&gl=US&msgid=NDA1NDQxN…> "Greg Newby" Daily update ⋅ September 27, 2023 NEWS <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.freethink.com/robots-…> AI narrates 5,000 free audiobooks for Project Gutenberg - Freethink <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.freethink.com/robots-…> Freethink *Greg Newby*. Anticipating that it would ... “It creates audiobooks en masse, reducing days of volunteer labor to just 30 seconds per book.” *Greg Newby*. [image: Facebook] <https://www.google.com/alerts/share?hl=en&gl=US&ru=https://www.freethink.co…> [image: Twitter] <https://www.google.com/alerts/share?hl=en&gl=US&ru=https://www.freethink.co…> Flag as irrelevant <https://www.google.com/alerts/feedback?ffu=https://www.freethink.com/robots…> See more results <https://www.google.com/alerts?s=AB2Xq4iZ2_NnowQwcGB_oT0vPVxRDdDWNFwhYgI&sta…> | Edit this alert <https://www.google.com/alerts/edit?source=alertsmail&hl=en&gl=US&msgid=NDA1…> You have received this email because you have subscribed to *Google Alerts*. Unsubscribe <https://www.google.com/alerts/remove?source=alertsmail&hl=en&gl=US&msgid=ND…> | View all your alerts <https://www.google.com/alerts?source=alertsmail&hl=en&gl=US&msgid=NDA1NDQxN…> [image: RSS] Receive this alert as RSS feed <https://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/07518397227698660438/8122626742406711406> Send Feedback <https://www.google.com/alerts?source=alertsmail&hl=en&gl=US&msgid=NDA1NDQxN…> ----- End forwarded message -----

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New posting/video of PG
by Greg Newby 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Hi Laura. Here's something new to put out on our feeds: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1646266241611394912-project-gut… Probably text could be something like, Project Gutenberg partnered with Microsoft to make over 5000 new audiobooks. They are freely available at https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/in… as well as popular podcast download sites. Read more about this effort, and see a video of Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby talking about it: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1646266241611394912-project-gut… Thanks! Greg

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