Re: [ARSCLIST] at this rate, won't be much to archive soon enough

[Mal Rockwell <malcolm@xxxxxxxx>]

I have a difficult enough time collecting, archiving and collating 78rpm
Hawaiian music and data - granted, a limited field - to mess with the
newer stuff. Leave it to the current generation, I say. Those interested
enough will end up like us eventually!
Of course we won't be around to gloat.
Mal

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Jeffrey Kane wrote:

> Indeed, the problem of WHAT to archive has only worsened. Anyone can create
> a podcast/webpage/etc. It's no longer trying to save the output of some
> obscure record company (Grey Gull, etc). Now you have people generating and
> publishing their own content. Mind you, people could always record tapes,
> etc. They simply couldn't ever distribute them the way one can over the
> 'net. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Nolan
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:54 AM
> To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] at this rate, won't be much to archive soon enough
>
> Sure there will.  It just won't be pieces of physical media.
>
> I am currently archiving every poetry podcast I can to hard drive.  I wish 
> I had the resources to archive much more than that.
>
> I think in 30 or 40 years, people will go nuts for these early inteernet 
> broadcasts, just as folks have gone ga-ga for old-time radio since the 
> 70's...
>
> So get archiving, people...
>
> For that matter - go check out the wealth of lossless downloadable music 
> available all over the web - same thing.  I wish I had the $$ to download 
> and archive all the unique material that Robert Fripp is making available 
> through his downloadable music distributor...
>
> dave n
> 92y
> nyc
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:39:17 -0400, Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
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> > http://blogs.usatoday.com:80/ondeadline/2007/03/compactdisc_sal.html
> >
> > I don't think "piracy" is the whole story by a long shot. I think putting 
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> out utter crap and badly
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> > marketing that tends to kill a business.
> >
> > -- Tom Fine
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