"Play Dead, Roll Over" - Memoir to Explore Black-on-White 'Justice'

Gravel: LIterary Journal ^ | July 2013 | Steve Peacock

[CharlesWayneCT]

Not an “ax to grind”, just an observation that any publication can change their online posting or go out of business, and so if you can post entire articles here, there is a better chance they will be accessible 5 years from now. Say what you will about our servers, I can still find the first post I ever made here. I think we can still find the first post anybody ever made here.

Whereas I’ve lost the online references to my opinion columns at least twice, once when the paper went to a news aggregation service, and once when they updated that web site as they switched to a facebook-interface service. Then when they went out of business, someone else bought the web site, and I can’t tell if they are deleting old stuff or not.

I sometimes think I’ll take the time to go back to my original column blog (I operated a blog for people to discuss my column, until the paper added comments to their online news), and add full copies of my column, and push the links to the ends of all my columns posted here (I only posted a few columns here, ones that dealt with national news items we were discussing at the time). But that is more work than is useful for the type of column I wrote (news-driven).

Since links are always given, I feel that we get the best of both worlds with full postings. We can read in one place, especially helpful with those who follow at work where increasingly sites are blocked (it is amazing how many places I cannot get to, news sites that nobody has ever filed as work-useful because they really aren’t). And if we like what we read, we can go to the link to see what else might be around.

[Louis Foxwell]

I began posting here in the mid 90’s, shortly after the site began.I believe Rush mentioned it which led me to Jim and friends. I do not remember my handle at the time, changed it around 2000, then again a few years ago. I was Amos the Prophet for a long while.
Published an online email locally with letters from locals about current events. Great fun. Published a journal before that. Much of my writing still exists but it is in formats I have not accessed for years.
Never put a blog together. I should.
Thaks for the chat.