Digitisation of Newspapers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4051917129/ As someone who spent hours and hours in the Newspaper archives at Colindale, this is exceptionally good news. It's also interesting to see that the documents are not being scanned simply as electronic-paper, but there are plans to use that digital information to create an 'encyclopedia of memory', a 'national memory'. Interestingly, the project is being worked on by the people behind Genes Reunited (yes, the people behind Friends Reunited... my first social network!)... due…