What is a "media archaeologist"? (Answer--)

[Margaret Wuersten <MWuersten@PUYALLUP.K12.WA.US>]

You folks might find this article interesting.  While all of us deal with =
peripheral information occasionally, Rick Prelinger (subject of article) =
has chosen this as his life's work. (The heading and first paragraph =
follow.) (I have permission of the author to reprint.)

http://ftp.archive.org/html/sd.html

Rick Prelinger and the Importance of Peripheral Information=20
By Bart Eisenberg=20
Software Design magazine: www.gihyo.co.jp/SD/pacific=20
In my senior year at the University of California, Berkeley, I visited a =
dormitory room decorated so unconventionally that I still remember it =
decades later. The room belonged to fellow student Rick Prelinger, who had =
covered his walls with topographical maps -- detailed maps of the American =
terrain produced by the United States Geological Survey that are popular =
with hikers and hunters. Displaying a "topo" map wouldn't by itself be =
that unusual if it were of, say, Yosemite National Park. But Prelinger's =
maps covered California's flat, rural Central Valley, an area better known =
for cotton fields than waterfalls. The maps had names like "Avenel" and =
"South of Kettleman City," indicating that the area's most prominent =
landmark was in fact off the map. One map in the region is entitled "The =
Dark Hole." The maps' lack of landmarks, their detailed chronicling of an =
almost feature-less landscape, was the very reason Prelinger liked them. =
As I say, he had unconventional tastes.

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