Peter,
I appreciate a drenching RAIN well. As for the marionsumerianlibrarian
comments, Peter, I think they can be overlooked. More of a good thing
is still a good thing. As Pascal explained, we all have to make
adjustments for lack of time. Your grateful readers can just read
faster.
"Je N'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir
de la faire plus courte.--I have only made this letter rather long
because I have not had time to make it shorter." Pascal. Lettres
provinciales, 16, Dec.14,1656. Cassell's Book of Quotations,
London,1912. P.718.
Best Regards,
Barbara Stewart, MLS
Sr. Consultant - Records Manager
Alcoa Inc.
(comments are my opinions, not my company's)
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [RM] How Much RAIN ? basta!
On 1/5/07, Marion Sumerianlibrarian <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> i stopped regular reading of rain posts a good 2 or so years ago. i'm
> sure that was when peter began using bots for article searches and the
> overall quality of both the categories and the individual pieces
> became much more generic and inferior.
had to go back 2 years to see what the anonymous mysterious Marion
Sumerianlibrarian was talking about. Back in 2004 I was doing a weekly
RAIN update. Each update was for a particular category such as Open
Records, Government, Technology, whatever. At that time I had more free
time available to do that. not as many newspapers were indexed by bots
at that time
As to the use of bots, I've been using various bots to search for
articles since the about 1998. Now I exclusively use Google News Alerts.
Now if some one has stopped reading something 2 years back how can one
then say that they have become more generic and inferior. Just remember
you get what you pay for.
>
> i'd be curious to know, however, the search parameters he uses, and
> the selection process beyond that for the pieces that get posted.
as stated above I use Google News Alerts to search the online media.
Google News indexes over 4,000 online news sources. I also have 4 yahoo
news service searches running (not nearly as robust or extensive as
Google). I have approximately 50+ news alerts running every day.
Now what are the search parameters/terms that I use?
here are but a few of the searches that i have running. those that
appear within quotation marks are exact term searches
"open records"
"records manager"
"national archives"
"national archive"
archivist archives
email destruction
records documents files
shredding files
I receive news alerts once a day. I review each alert to identify those
that might contain a story of interest to me or my readership.
Each alert contains between 1 and many stories. If a search did not find
articles that meet the terms then no alert is sent.
Once all the alerts are reviewed I go through and capture the relevant
stories for posting in RAIN. After scanning stories for over 10 years
(RAIN started in 1996) I have developed a 6th sense for potential story.
If a story is borderline I will access the relevant website and quickly
review the story. have a few stinkers slipped through? sure, but I think
they have been outweighed by the relevant ones.
what you see in a RAIN posting is what I get from Google News Alerts.
I try to walk a narrow line with regards to story selection. I'm sure
that marion is wondering why I didn't pick up and post the stories about
the EPA library closings? Simple reason they weren't captured by any of
my searches. At the same time I didn't think that they would be of
interest since they were not (IMHO) connected to archives or records
management. More of a library issue.
I try to collect and post stories that will interest a broad audience as
well as to get folks thinking outside of the narrow parameters of their
current jobs. My purpose is to get folks to go "mmmmmmm I didn't know
that."
> bring back the old rain!
Not likely unless you are willing to pay for it ;-)
also depends upon what 'old rain' you are referring to? over a 10 yr
span of time I have modified how and when RAIN is gathered, composed and
posted.
so thank you Marion (whoever you are) for asking
pa
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Richmond, Va
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