Using Factiva, a Dow Jones-owned media-archive service, about 25 New York-centric newspapers, magazines, websites and blogs are scanned daily and scored based on what names are mentioned, the number of times the name occurs and the placement of the mention in the article, such as in the first paragraph, in a headline or caption.

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Even though the paper had a massive collection of photos that are priceless artifacts of Baltimore history, Smith found that digitizing the visual media in the archive was actually not included in the project.

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British media reports suggest it may have come from the photo archive of the Mirror or Sunday Mirror newspaper.

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Earlier this month, the company also worked with the Internet Archive to make 1.5 million pieces of music, film and other media available through the BitTorrent ecosystem.

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SlingSync, a feature of My Media, acts like a personal cloud that allows Slingbox 500 customers to archive and store their captured moments onto a secure, compact USB drive while creating more space on their smartphone to collect new ones.

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Kahle, the founder of the non-profit Internet Archive, visited Reykjavik last week and met with government officials pushing for the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a proposed series of bills that would make Iceland an international legal haven for information transparency and journalistic source protection.

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