EOTO - Reaction 4

I was very impressed with the in-depth information Lauren Reynolds presented in her Each One Teach One project. Her essay is very thorough and will be extremely useful to all types of readers because it contains wonderful links to the organizations and projects that are currently underway on cataloguing the internet. Personally, I was vaguely aware of the September 11 Archive and the Minerva Project but was unfamiliar with some of the deeper aspects of the projects she wrote about.

I think this is a subject that hits close to home for those of us enrolled in JOMC 223. For weeks now, we have been using blackboard as a discussion forum: a way to interact, share our thoughts and feelings and to open new doors through education. At the close of the semester, all of that discussion will be lost forever. It really is a shame.

Lauren's essay brought up a salient point in that cataloguing the internet is an insurmountable task. With the amount of information that is out there for us to view and the rate at which some of these Web pages expire, is there any way to capture the whole history of our generation? Surely business pages are just important as personal pages, which are just as important as informational pages. Should we really have to pick and choose between "important" information and "expendable" information? Who should make that choice and what should that choice be based on in terms of usefulness, historical accuracy and values? Just a thought I'd like to put out there.