How To Digitize New York History: Museum of the City of New York Receives $125K Grant from NEH

Great news from the Big Apple for Ephemera lovers. Another example of why we need to support the National Endowment for the Humanities! New York, NY The Museum of the City of New York is pleased to announce the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the project Illuminating New York City History through Material Culture: A Proposal to Process, Catalog, Digitize, and Rehouse the Ephemera Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. The application, submitted to the NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant opportunity in July 2013, outlines a plan to increase public access to over 6,500 objects of material culture over the course of two years. The materials will eventually be available on the Museum’s online Collections Portal. The Museum was notified of the successful funding of this application in the amount of $125,000 by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s office in March 2014, by instruction of the NEH.

Read the full article here: Museum of the City of New York Receives Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities – BWWVisual ArtsWorld.

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Bill Moyers' Essay: What Happened to Obama's Promised Net Neutrality?

Watch this video as Bill Moyers explains with his unmatched clarity, the current fight for Net Neutraliy. Watch now here.

#StopTheSlowLane

Fight For The Future

Today websites all across the country will be posting messages to stop the FCC from allowing the likes of Comcast and Time Warner to slow down our internet.
The internet has become part of our Commons, our shared communal space.
Small businesses depend on it for customers.
Families depend on it for information for daily life.
Artists, Writers, and Educators use it to share the ideas that can change our world.

You might know that the Federal Communications Commission is proposing new rules to allow Internet providers to discriminate based on content to provide separate and unequal connection speeds, effectively creating "fast" and "slow" lanes for the Internet. This means that website owners and entrepreneurs like myself may be forced to pay an arbitrary fee to ISPs like Comcast and Time Warner if I want you, my visitors to be able to access your website at regular speeds – or at all.

This is a big issue. ISPs want to extort money from websites they deem profitable enough to pay them extra. We must convince the FCC that this is a terrible idea.
#StopTheSlowLane is an initiative to raise awareness about this issue.

If you care about the free flow of information then please go to Fight For The Future and make your voice heard to your member of Congress.

If you have a website please go to #StopTheSlowLane and put up the message on your site.

Together we can maintain the freedom of our Online Commons!