Well done. I find reporters are keen to talk with IT historians about all manner of issues. It helps that a lot of governments and reporters are going after Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft for one thing or another and that fake news and the Internet has come into its own as hot topics, and increasingly privacy. Maybe bad working voter terminals will be next. Jim Cortada On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:26 PM Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae@virginia.edu> wrote:
Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention, Paul. I chatted with Mr. Kelly several weeks ago and was away from my computer on Wednesday, so I missed the article appearing. I will have to track down the paper copy and clip it out for my mother, who still like a clipping every time I am quoted somewhere.
John Kelly pens a delightful local interest column that I used to enjoy reading back when I also got the newsprint version of the WaPo.
I mentioned to him during the interview the SIGCIS and SHOT communities after he indicated his colleagues always wished for a wider pool of scholars of history of technology and computers to contact for quotes and story details. I passed on a slew of SIGCIS members' names and e-mail addresses, including Esther Milne, whom the reporter also quoted in the piece here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/youve-got-mail-what-does-your-email-sig...
. So if any SIGCIS list members are approached by a Washington Post reporter in the coming weeks looking for a quote on some aspect of your specialty, I may be to blame.
Best, Andrew (Also Signature-less)
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:35 AM Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP@si.edu> wrote:
Nice to see Andrew McGee quoted in today's Washington Post, Metro section, in John Kelly's Washington column about "signatures" in email (p. B3). I am one of the hold-outs who gets the print version. My subscription give me access to the on-line version, but I never go there.
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