This is such a good post about:<p>a. how the internet archive is building its political archive<p>b. proving to other cultural heritage institutions that they can get their act together and preserve culture today and make it relevant today<p>Ok, so Ted Cruz ads are a particular part of culture, but bravo.<p>I used to work at The New York Public Library&#x27;s Labs and we had to fight to do anything with anything that wasn&#x27;t blatantly in the public domain. Meanwhile, one of my colleagues there, Leonard Richardson, would go off and create massive archives like the Minecraft Geological Survey (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mcgs.crummy.com&#x2F;#mcgs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mcgs.crummy.com&#x2F;#mcgs</a>) in the evenings.<p>Seriously, we need more folks working in these big organizations that are very good at surviving for more than a hundred years, acting as arks of human culture, that can collect and make useful today&#x27;s materials. It&#x27;s just our ability to remember today at stake.