Classic Computer Magazine Archive [Slashdot]. Formerly known as The Digital Antic Project, Classic Computer Magazine Archive, also operates the Classic Computer Magazines Webring.

The Long Now Foundation is part of the inspiration for The Ten Thousand Year Blog and is developing a 10,000 Year Clock that will be on permanent display at Ely, Nevada. A weather station, assembled by the foundation with public-private sector assistance in the summer 02001, is transmitting data as of 02002 October 10.

The foundation operates The Rosetta Project (an online language archives) and Long Bets (if you love to gamble and you have a reputation at stake on a future prediction, this is the place to put your money where your mouth is). Spun off from the foundation is the All-Species Foundation that's attempting to document every living species within the next 25 years. Check out its All Species Toolkit Search Engine.

In the I Don't Know What to Make of This Organization category is V2_Organisation, Institute for the Unstable Media in the Netherlands. It's an artists' co-operative that carries on a variety of activities of value to society. What caught my eye on wandering over from Bruce Sterling's Mirrorshades site at The Well is the DEAF03 (Dutch Electronic Art Festival) program with the theme of Data Knitting that focuses on the value of archives as a portion of this introduction to the theme demonstrates:

Archives no longer just hold our past for inspection by historians, tax collectors and other researchers. We are permanently living in archives: all the sites we visit on the Internet are being logged by our search engines. All our shopping is being registered by our supermarkets. Each time we perform an electronic act we add information to the running archive of our activities as both individuals and members of target groups. On the basis of such archives the policies for the future are being planned, from marketing strategies to decisions about where to build shops. Behind almost all activities in the hard, material world nowadays there is an immaterial archive, for instance the storage of data from video surveillance and other security equipment. We are living in the world's online archive, or, more to the point: we are living in the world-as-archive, as a constellation of databases.

IM Users: Your Boss Is Watching by Joanna Glasner. An increasing number of businesses are reading the instant messages of their employees. New software by AOL helps them do just that ... [Wired News]

And this business-class software, according to Glasner, keeps an archives of users' messages as required by some United States regulatory agencies:

In the wake of the Martha Stewart trading imbroglio, brokerage record-keeping practices have been in the spotlight. Those who don't have proper archives of instant-messaging conversations can find themselves out of compliance with securities regulations.

Hemingway Documents Restored in Cuba [AP World News].

Not exactly about digital preservation, but perhaps the microfilm will one day be digitized and released to the world. Wouldn't that be revolutionary?