Category Archives: Newspapers

A Tragedy Captured in Digital Amber

September 7, 2002

When disaster struck on Sept. 11, 2001, we did what people always do in times of crisis: We reached out to loved ones and others in our communities for reassurance, for news, for dialog. But this was the first national catastrophe to occur in the Information Age, in a world wired for a radical new information-exchanging technology called e-mail. Over the ensuing days, we realized that by responding to these events via e-mail, we were participating in a vital new arena of the national discourse — and that this discourse was recorded, at least for the moment, inside our computers. To preserve this fleeting record of our collective experiences and reactions, Gregory Dicum and Bryan Bell put out a call for people to send them the e-mails from this intense period that had the most personal significance for them. The following are a selection of excerpts from the e-mails they collected, as well as from the e-mail dialog they engaged in themselves.

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Edge of the World

May 2, 2001

PICTURE NEVADA:
high jagged mountains, dry air, and a hell of a lot of sky. Now imagine it without any good roads. Add to that a drought and the knowledge that the people who live where you used to herd your goats want to kill you. (more…)

Posted in Newspapers, SF Bay Guardian

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!

May 26, 1999

SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE just about everything we eat, drink, or do is bad. Bad for the earth, for your health, for workers, for your karma. Those stylin’ sneakers? Cranked out by children in a sweatshop. Your shiny SUV? Choking the planet with greenhouse gases. Those succulent strawberries? Doused with chemicals. Cigarettes? Forget it. (more…)

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