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[socialmedia] My 50th ebook birthday post
by Eric Hellman 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-ebook-turns-50.html Eric Hellman President, Free Ebook Foundation Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/ https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ twitter: @gluejar

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[socialmedia] Fwd: Project Gutenberg Newsletter June-July 2021, celebrating 50 years of eBooks
by Greg Newby 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

Hi folks. I have linked in our article about 50 years of eBooks: https://www.gutenberg.org/about/background/50years.html Here also is today's newsletter. The DP blog posting isn't up yet, but should be there soon. Thanks for helping spread the word! Best, Greg

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[socialmedia] Visualizations for 50th PG birthday
by Greg Newby 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Hi, socialmedia team. Laura & Joshua have collaborated towards some wonderful illustrations. These will be worthwhile to highlight in our social media feed. See links in the attached email. Three other pending items, for July 4: - A blog post at Distributed Proofreaders - A new page in the About section of www.gutenberg.org (with a link from the main page) - Our monthly newsletter, which I Hope to send on July 4 Thanks for helping to celebrate the 50th year of Project Gutenberg! Greg

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[socialmedia] Fwd: Re: For the 50th anniversary of Project Gutenberg
by Greg Newby 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

Hi Christine & others. Please consider linking to the individual blog posts by Marie Lebert. She's written a lot about PG and eBooks, and has a timeline for PG that we'll highlight for our forthcoming "50th birthday of eBooks" messaging. The Booknology link at archive.org is also really cool! I thought these might be worth trickling into the PG social media feeds. Thanks for considering. Greg

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[socialmedia] Please remove FB image
by Greg Newby 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hi, all. We got a complaint from someone claiming to represent Don Komarechka Photography. Would you please remove these images from the PG FB page? https://www.facebook.com/project.gutenberg/photos/a.387615124635933/9307086… https://www.facebook.com/project.gutenberg/photos/a.387615124635933/9307086… https://www.facebook.com/pg/project.gutenberg/photos/ It appears they match the original, here: https://www.donkom.ca/maple-leaf-flag/ It's important that PG only utilizes imagery that is in the public domain, or that is licensed for reuse. It is trivially easy for copyright trolls to search our content looking for items that are not free from copyright constraints. Thank you for your help with this, and for all that you do! Greg

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[socialmedia] Standard eBooks builds upon Project Gutenberg to offer a better reading experience
by Laura N 18 May '21

18 May '21

Standard eBooks builds upon Project Gutenberg to offer a better reading experience https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/standard-ebooks-builds-upon-projec…

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[socialmedia] Podcast link for FB/Twitter
by Greg Newby 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hi, folks. I was interviewed for a podcast, and it turned out pretty well. Here's the link, suitable for our facebook & twitter pages: https://share.transistor.fm/s/667f33b9 Thanks! Greg

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[socialmedia] Italy blocks are less friendly, FYI
by Greg Newby 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

Hi social media team. I wonder whether there have been new complaints from people in Italy? Below is my response to someone who was unable to reach www.gutenberg.org. In a nutshell, it appears that network route poisoning is being used, rather than DNS hijacking. Or some sort of combination... the result is a "connection refused," rather than a law enforcement message. Please let me know if further reports arrive or if there is other evidence of different techniques. There still isn't anything PG can do about this, but it's good for me to know what's going on so helpdesk inquiries may be handled. Thanks, and thanks as always for your great work tending to PG's social media! Greg

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[socialmedia] Fwd: Re: Please defer 'pushes'
by Greg Newby 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

FYI, this is why there have been no new postings today: ----- Forwarded message from Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> ----- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:01:55 -0800 From: Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> To: pgww(a)lists.pglaf.org Subject: Re: Please defer 'pushes' Update: I'm sorry to say that aleph.pglaf.org still isn't recovered. If it's not back by morning (Pacific time, where the system is located), I'll remove aleph from the quorum so we can begin pushing again. Until then, pushed files *will* go to ibiblio and hence to www.gutenberg.org, but they will also generate hourly "pushed failure" messages in your inbox (as long as they are in the ../push/ folder). Sorry for this trouble. I think the colo center fixed the problem that took all our systems off the network, and didn't realize aleph had a separate issue. I've emailed them about it again (fourth time today, and four phone calls). - Greg On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 01:56:55PM -0800, Greg Newby wrote: > Update: Please continue to defer pushes. The aleph system > is still not online. > > Coincidentally, perhaps, there was a network outage > for all the pglaf.org servers. It lasted around 4 hours, > mid-day today (Pacific time). The main pglaf.org server > is back, and so is our big mirror and backup server, > dante.pglaf.org > > But aleph.pglaf.org is still offline... > - Greg > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 09:11:41AM -0800, Greg Newby wrote: > > Hi, folks. I did an upgrade to aleph.pglaf.org, which is one > > of our three "master" servers. Unfortunately it did not return > > from the upgrade properly, and I cannot access it to fix it. > > > > I've asked our hosting company in San Diego to fix things. > > > > Until it's fixed, pushes will fail (files will go to ibiblio, > > though, so will get posted as usual). > > > > Any files you push will re-try every hour until aleph is back. > > You'll get a push failure error for every file in the queue, > > indicating the file did not go to aleph.pglaf.org. > > > > So, you might want to hold onto your pushes files until aleph > > is fixed. I'll keep you informed of status. > > - Greg ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [socialmedia] Facebook page New PG Books (covers)
by cxb.mymail＠gmail.com 18 Dec '20

18 Dec '20

Hi Greg, This hasn't been fixed yet. Today we have no covers showing in Facebook posts (although covers are available) for the following: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64055 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64047 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64048 This book has a cover and we can see the cover in Facebook today: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64054 Many thanks, Christine ------------------------------ Hi, Christine. Did this get fixed? I didn't see a response from Eric... If it persists, I can try sending a slack message. It would be helpful to have a specific example, so we can trace back to try to find out what happened. One thing that's going on is a bunch of rehabilitation of much older books - over 50 per hour. It's possible that is causing indigestion in the workflow, somewhere. Thanks! Greg On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 04:59:41PM +1100, Christine Bell via socialmedia wrote: > Hi, > > > > New Project Gutenberg Books newsfeed > > > > Some of our posts for new books aren't showing the covers, even though > they're available. Is it possible to fix this? > > > > Many thanks, > > Christine > > _______________________________________________ > socialmedia mailing list > socialmedia(a)lists.pglaf.org <mailto:socialmedia@lists.pglaf.org> > https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/socialmedia

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