Traffic is really picking up on the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. Already this week we’ve had more visitors to the site than in the entire month of June. Some of that traffic is the natural result of more interest in Katrina one year later that is being generated by pretty constant news coverage of the…
Author: Mills
Building the Archives of Disaster
I’ve taken over as the Executive Producer of the Hurricane Digital Archive. Like our September 11 Digital Archive, the HDMB is set up to collect the digital record of a disaster–in this case the disaster generated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It would be nice to believe that “if we build them, they will come”…
On vacation
Edwired will be on hiatus for the next couple of weeks while I soak up some badly needed R&R. While I’m gone, can I ask you to do me a favor? Will you go to the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank and contribute your own story about the Katrina/Rita disasters? You do not need to live…
Even the big boys (and girls) make mistakes
One would think that a big sophisticated international company like Amazon.com would have a database management system to envy. Alas, even cutting edge industry leaders have their flaws. How do I know this to be true? Consider this particular example: This week a new book appeared in the various Amazon.whatever listings around the world: Without…