Jumping Monkeys Episode 38: Archivist Alison
Today we delve deep into the issue of how to archive your family memories. Our guest is expert and new mom Archivist Alison. Alison discusses the difference between archiving and backup and explains why there's not one "best way" to preserve all your digital memories.
She doesn't have a Web site, but here are a few of her posts on Ask Moxie that we discuss in the episode:
POLL
This poll refers to The Modern Nursery: No Batteries Required.
SPEND: Wood Stacking Robots
SAVE: Embellish a Kids Shirt from Rookie Moms
GIVE: Echoage
BOOK PICKS:
This week's book picks comes from Jumping Monkeys listener Jim Cronin who says he listens to the books that his daughter is assigned in school.
Walk 2 Moons by Sharon Creech
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
YOU TUBE VIDEO OF THE WEEK:
Star Wars according to a 3 year old girl.
LISTENER FEEDBACK:
Jessica from Brooklyn tells that Samual Pepys does have a blog. And you can add him as your LiveJournal friend.
The essence of the whole movie distilled into 6 words: "Don't talk back to Darth Vader." LOL
Posted by: Jan | March 16, 2008 at 09:24 PM
Hmm, Definitely a problem with your blogging software here Megan. Another post that shows twice.
Posted by: Nick | March 17, 2008 at 05:03 AM
Archivist Alison was awesome! Fun, relaxed and well spoken in an interesting way on a subject that frankly most of us avoid. Would love to hear her back from time to time.
And if she starts a blog then please let us know!
Posted by: Michael Johnson | March 17, 2008 at 01:26 PM
This was another great show! Thank you for providing so much interesting information - I definitely need to work on archiving my pictures and this may be the show to get me motivated.
I wanted to second the Stacking Robots. My 4-year-old received them for his birthday last month and they are fun, but you really need more than one set.
Posted by: Katrina H | March 17, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Regarding the device that measures the amount of speech a child is exposed to. I feel that the manufacture is insulting parents.
Autism is not caused by kids not being exposed to language. Other speech delays can be cause by many things.
Neglect and abuse can be a cause, yes. So can multiple ear infections. I have a student now who has had ear infection followed by ear infections. The parents have done everything the doctors have said to do, they have investigated every avenue but the solution has been elusive.
In my family several 2nd or 3rd children have had speech delay. This is in a very verbal family. In each case the solution offered by the speech teacher/doctor was easy - tell older sibling to stop talking/translating for younger sibling. Yes the cause of the speech delay was to much exposure to language.
Posted by: Kimberly | March 25, 2008 at 07:17 PM
Hi! Regarding the speech measurement device, as a geek dad, of course I'd use it! Yes the description is offensive, I feel that my wife and I speak to our daughter sufficiently and I am not concerned that we NEED to measure her speech exposure. But as a geek I have to think, a speech analysis tool? COOL! No way would I spend $400 - or even $50 for a device to record conversations with my daughter. But I feel there is certainly a level of geek appeal there. Any free/open source software I could use to do the same sort of speech analysis? ;-) Particularly from the description of the device, the analysis of the how the baby responds to your speech.
My wife and I have wondered about some of our daughters babbling, when is she trying to imitate our sounds, or is she trying to actually respond to us, or just making noise.
Anyway, great show, thanks.
Posted by: Mike | March 30, 2008 at 05:46 AM