In The Moment: President Obama’s inauguration by The Washington Post
Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire, U.S. Soldiers in Iraq (Part 1: ‘We Were Family’), by The Associated Press
Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire, U.S. Soldiers in Iraq (Part 2: ‘Who are we fighting?’), by The Associated Press
Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire, U.S. Soldiers in Iraq (Part 3: ‘He was my friend’), by The Associated Press
Intended Consequences: Rape as a Weapon in Rwanda, by Media Storm
In Beichuan, China, the Agony of Surviving, by Travis Fox, then of The Washington Post
Digital Nation: The Army Experience Center rough cut, by Rachel Dretzin for Frontline
Where Children Find Hope: Christ House home for Michigan’s legal orphans, by the Detroit Free Press
Bottoming out: Living with a Gambling Addiction, by Scott Den Herder of the Las Vegas Sun
The good ol' fashioned US Postal service just gave me Jill Drew's article(plus the others) on the keeping and storing and then trying to find the good one or the best one or anyone of the videos related to a specific story. I can definitely understand her frustration of trying to keep track and have available when needed LATER--and how about MUCH later like grandchildren's time and their ignorance or disbelief of how things happened__way back 10 years ago or 50--whatever!!--since that is about as far back as many can imagine. I have found the same problem with printed articles. I have kept some on file with my computer, in book marks such as Google then Diigo.com and thank goodness on PAPER. You know that oldfashioned stuff that comes from trees??? (tic) If I didn't have the last one, there are some articles from 2001 that I would have difficulty accessing since I for some strange reason don't remember the author's name or don't spell it correctly, or the topic I remember doesn't use the same terms as my memory does. URL's don't help much when I'm using 100-1000 different topics. So unless I have a paper copy I have difficulty keeping anything permanent online. EX: I lost all 3675 items listed on Diigo last August. I accessed some on a Friday but on the following Saturday morning I was told by Diigo I was a new customers and had to begin a file. Yes, I complained and they did find "most of them" but somehow I still can't find certain ones online with them. The Internet gives me 15 millions examples--lovely. I'm looking for a NY Times or London Prospect or Atlantic Monthly item but instead I find last week's or last month's story of the same place but not the time or action I had in mind. Some are items that both Mr. Bush and Mr Obama as presidents would now prefer I and all others would forget about--like Gitmo!!! They are items that grandchildren of mine did not exist to see them but need to know they did happen. Yes, Jill's son prefers college humor.com just as mine--most likely a few years old-- prefers not to read things Mom leaves for him. I am hoping his children are as he is and will believe their grandparent more than their parent. Either way I hope they will learn what others don't want them to know--even in a democracy. Hopefully there are ways found soon that las for decades and longer than many methods do now. Those videos she writes about are good reminders for those of us who lived through the times but they are also just partially learning skills about topics that need more than just the pictures if for no other reason than fill in the blanks of when, where and why or how these happened in the first place and then they can find out if that situation has improved, disintegrated or disappeared. Right now I resort to both filing online and copies on back sides of paper used for teaching years ago and are much cheaper than clear paper bought new. Maybe someone will do for these articles and videos what AT&T did for Cheney and his tapping of too many people's phones?? It would be more beneficial than storing our phone calls or internet connections to London Times or London Review of Books that happen to be outside this country. Gates of Microsoft fame did purchase a storage cave underground for movies--if I remember correctly--just a few years back. Journalism needs some of the same thing either separated by magazine/newspaper or by subject depending on the size. Where is our 21 century Andrew Carnegie when we need him???
#1 Posted by Patricia Wilson, CJR on Tue 14 Sep 2010 at 11:51 PM