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Comment by dattaway | Hacker News Reader

The advantage of the newspaper at work is that we pass it around the break room all day. It gets annotated with interesting notes and drawings by everyone. That one single newspaper gets read by perhaps 50 people.

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Of course, the advantage of HN is that articles get annotated with interesting notes by people I've never seen -- people who don't all work at the same company. And I don't have to commute to an office with a break room in order to read them.

The advantage of the newspaper at work is that [...] It gets annotated with interesting notes and drawings by everyone.

I thought that was what a wiki was for. Once your newspaper for a given day is annotated, how do you search it in the future? http://images.google.com/images?q=newspaper+stacks How would one even store something like that? http://www.georgeweber.net/radio-curtis_office.jpg

http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/200...

> I thought that was what a wiki was for. Once your newspaper for a given day is annotated, how do you search it in the future?

You don't. The asymptotic approach of storage costs to 0 has made some people believe that everything is worth saving.

The asymptotic approach of storage costs to 0 has made some people believe that everything is worth saving.

Like Fred Wilson. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/01/confessions-of-a-pack-rat-ak...

Confessions Of A Pack Rat (aka My Document Retention Policy)

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