For much of this website’s existence, I’ve used it primarily to link to my stories elsewhere online. As a freelancer, I didn’t want to jeopardize my gig covering Indiana University (and other) sports by posting my stories in their entirety here, and when I got a full-time newspaper job again, I was too swamped with the business of getting a newspaper out every day to worry much about linking to those stories.

Unfortunately, a lot of that work is now no longer online. The Post-Tribune, one of the newspapers I covered the Hoosiers for, was sold from the Chicago Sun-Times to the Chicago Tribune and all the P-T’s online archives disappeared. The Shelbyville News, my last newspaper job, recently updated their web site and their online archive is gone.

It’s ironic, I suppose, the way the newspaper business–where today’s print product is tomorrow’s fishwrap or birdcage liner–is also disposable online. There’s an interesting story here about that.

Yeah, the video doesn’t necessarily reflect the whole online archive thing, but any chance to post a scene from “The Paper,” I’ll take it.

Cool links

Brian Chen of the New York Times had an article this week looking at just how much of your personal information Facebook and other sites actually store in data. I haven’t downloaded my info yet, but I’m definitely going to look into it.

Here’s a follow-up to the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.

Stephen King’s favorite novels. Sort of.

And a 4K tour of the moon:

See you next week…

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