Social Archivist

I came across a series of articles about how people lined up for a souvenir copy of a newspaper when Obama became president. Here’s some interesting quotes from them:

“How do you memorialize an exuberant comments thread on a blog post or a series of ecstatic Facebook status updates when those pages could move or disappear? …how do you make something permanent in a medium built on constant change? For me, the only answer to come to mind is “print out and frame a screen capture.” What about you? How do you extract a memento from the online world? Rob Pegoraro

“You can’t put a computer screen into a scrapbook” Joyce Mutcherson-Ridley

“You can’t show your children your BlackBerry or your computer screen. In 30 years, my children will be able to touch and feel these papers when I tell them all about this historic day.” Merwyn Scott

Lots of people out there are pondering this issue of taking digital memories and preserving them in a physical form.