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[ti:Website Saves Today's Headlines for the Future] [ar:Christopher Cruise] [al:Technology Report] [by:www.chinavoa.com] [00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. [00:04.68]If researchers want to know [00:06.97] what happened on a particular day, [00:09.07]they often look at newspapers published on that day. [00:13.21]But what would happen [00:14.77]if newspapers were to stop publishing? [00:17.60]Future researchers would likely turn to the Web. [00:21.49]The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine [00:25.82]at Archive.org has for years saved, [00:29.50]or archived, websites from the past. [00:32.95]But it only does this once a day for news websites, [00:37.48]and even less often for other websites. [00:41.21]Twenty-nine-year-old reporter Ben Welsh [00:44.86]decided to create a site similar to Archive.org. [00:49.15]But he wanted to archive only news websites. [00:53.82]And, he wanted to save their homepages more often. [00:57.61]Mr. Welsh works for the Los Angeles Times newspaper [01:01.89]in California. [01:03.28]In May he created PastPages.org. [01:08.11]The website saves the homepages of seventy news websites [01:12.93]from around the world once an hour. [01:16.02]Mr. Welsh says this schedule of what he calls "harvesting" [01:20.95]is important in today's quickly-changing news environment. [01:25.67]BEN WELSH: "Because over the course of a day, [01:27.43]the narrative arc of a news story can develop quite a bit." [01:30.81]Mr. Welsh says nothing like PastPages.org had ever been done. [01:36.33]He says no one had saved the homepages [01:39.47]of so many news websites so often, [01:42.70]and made that material available to the public. [01:46.73]He hopes to keep adding to the site [01:50.90]until it is archiving material [01:53.69]from up to three hundred news websites around the world. [01:58.72]Ben Welsh spends about sixty dollars a month [02:02.66]on storage space for PastPages.org. [02:06.34]He feared the cost would increase [02:09.29]beyond what he could afford, [02:11.13]so he asked people for help through the website Kickstarter. [02:16.06]Thousands of Americans use the website [02:19.50]to seek money to pay for their projects. [02:22.74]Two days after Ben Welsh made his request, [02:26.70]PastPages.org had received promises [02:30.83]for half of the five thousand dollars that he had asked for. [02:36.21]Within about a week, he had gotten all of it and more. [02:40.66]Mr. Welsh says he will use the money to expand his website. [02:46.19]BEN WELSH: "Then my hope is, is on top of that [02:48.34]to build some features specifically targeted [02:50.71]to media researchers and media critics [02:53.80]so that they'll be able to more-easily access [02:56.84]data like this to do an analysis of media coverage." [03:00.39]Stephanie Bluestein was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. [03:05.36]She is now an assistant professor of journalism [03:09.21]at California State University, Northridge. [03:12.24]She believes PastPages.org [03:15.28]will prove to be a valuable resource. [03:18.06]STEPHANIE BLUESTEIN: "Until now we haven't had any archives [03:23.09]that's been to this frequency. [03:25.89]So now you could go back and look hour by hour [03:31.28]and see the placement of what was the lead story, [03:35.82]how the headline changed and how one newspaper [03:40.05]played a story versus another one. [03:42.04]Now you can actually compare. [03:43.68]Professor Bluestein says today's news changes [03:47.27]so quickly that even archiving [03:49.86]once an hour may soon not be enough. [03:53.30]And that's the VOA Special English Technology Report. [03:57.13]I'm Christopher Cruise.

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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.

If researchers want to know what happened on a particular day, they often look at newspapers published on that day. But what would happen if newspapers were to stop publishing? Future researchers would likely turn to the Web.

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at Archive.org has for years saved, or archived, websites from the past. But it only does this once a day for news websites, and even less often for other websites.

PastPages.org

Twenty-nine-year-old reporter Ben Welsh decided to create a site similar to Archive.org. But he wanted to archive only news websites. And, he wanted to save their homepages more often.

Mr. Welsh works for the Los Angeles Times newspaper in California. In May he created PastPages.org. The website saves the homepages of seventy news websites from around the world once an hour. Mr. Welsh says this schedule of what he calls "harvesting" is important in today's quickly-changing news environment.

Ben Welsh

BEN WELSH: "Because over the course of a day, the narrative arc of a news story can develop quite a bit."

Mr. Welsh says nothing like PastPages.org had ever been done. He says no one had saved the homepages of so many news websites so often, and made that material available to the public. He hopes to keep adding to the site until it is archiving material from up to three hundred news websites around the world.

Ben Welsh spends about sixty dollars a month on storage space for PastPages.org. He feared the cost would increase beyond what he could afford, so he asked people for help through the website Kickstarter. Thousands of Americans use the website to seek money to pay for their projects.

Two days after Ben Welsh made his request, PastPages.org had received promises for half of the five thousand dollars that he had asked for. Within about a week, he had gotten all of it and more. Mr. Welsh says he will use the money to expand his website.

BEN WELSH: "Then my hope is, is on top of that to build some features specifically targeted to media researchers and media critics so that they'll be able to more-easily access data like this to do an analysis of media coverage."

Stephanie Bluestein was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. She is now an assistant professor of journalism at California State University, Northridge. She believes PastPages.org will prove to be a valuable resource.

STEPHANIE BLUESTEIN: "Until now we haven't had any archives that's been to this frequency. So now you could go back and look hour by hour and see the placement of what was the lead story, how the headline changed and how one newspaper played a story versus another one. Now you can actually compare.

Professor Bluestein says today's news changes so quickly that even archiving once an hour may soon not be enough.

And that's the VOA Special English Technology Report. I'm Christopher Cruise.

一家存檔新聞網(wǎng)站主頁的檔案類網(wǎng)站

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
這里是美國之音慢速英語科技報道。

If researchers want to know what happened on a particular day, they often look at newspapers published on that day. But what would happen if newspapers were to stop publishing? Future researchers would likely turn to the Web.
如果研究人員希望知道某一天發(fā)生了什么事，他們通常會翻看當(dāng)天出版的報紙。但如果報紙停止出版了呢？未來的研究人員可能會轉(zhuǎn)向網(wǎng)站。

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at Archive.org has for years saved, or archived, websites from the past. But it only does this once a day for news websites, and even less often for other websites.
多年來，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)檔案館網(wǎng)站Archive.org上的時光機（Wayback Machine）存檔了過去的網(wǎng)站。但對新聞網(wǎng)站來說，它每天只存檔一次，其它類型的網(wǎng)站存檔頻率就更慢。

Twenty-nine-year-old reporter Ben Welsh decided to create a site similar to Archive.org. But he wanted to archive only news websites. And, he wanted to save their homepages more often.
29歲的記者本·威爾士（Ben Welsh）決定創(chuàng)建一個類似Archive.org的網(wǎng)站。但他希望只存檔新聞網(wǎng)站，同時希望存檔頻率更快。

Mr. Welsh works for the Los Angeles Times newspaper in California. In May he created PastPages.org. The website saves the homepages of seventy news websites from around the world once an hour. Mr. Welsh says this schedule of what he calls "harvesting" is important in today's quickly-changing news environment.
威爾士先生就職于加利福尼亞州的《洛杉磯時報》。今年五月，他創(chuàng)建了PastPages.org。這個網(wǎng)站每小時存檔一次世界各地70家新聞網(wǎng)站的主頁。威爾士先生說，這項被他稱作“收割”的計劃表在今天瞬息萬變的新聞環(huán)境中非常重要。

BEN WELSH: "Because over the course of a day, the narrative arc of a news story can develop quite a bit."
威爾士：“因為在一天之中，新聞報道的敘事?。╪arrative arc）會發(fā)展不少。”

Mr. Welsh says nothing like PastPages.org had ever been done. He says no one had saved the homepages of so many news websites so often, and made that material available to the public. He hopes to keep adding to the site until it is archiving material from up to three hundred news websites around the world.
威爾士先生說，之前沒有哪家網(wǎng)站像PastPages.org一樣做。他說，沒有人如此頻繁地存檔了這么多新聞網(wǎng)站的主頁，并將這些材料向公眾開放。他希望存檔的來自世界各地的新聞網(wǎng)站不斷增加，直到其數(shù)量達到300家。

Ben Welsh spends about sixty dollars a month on storage space for PastPages.org. He feared the cost would increase beyond what he could afford, so he asked people for help through the website Kickstarter. Thousands of Americans use the website to seek money to pay for their projects.
威爾士每月在PastPages.org的儲存空間上要花費60美元左右。他擔(dān)心費用會增加到超出他的承受能力，所以他通過Kickstarter網(wǎng)站尋求幫助。數(shù)千名美國人使用這個網(wǎng)站為自己的項目尋求資金支持。

Two days after Ben Welsh made his request, PastPages.org had received promises for half of the five thousand dollars that he had asked for. Within about a week, he had gotten all of it and more. Mr. Welsh says he will use the money to expand his website.
在威爾士提交請求后的兩天后，PastPages.org獲得的捐助承諾已經(jīng)達到他所要求的5千美元的一半。在一周之內(nèi)他就獲得了所要求的全部資金還有所超出。威爾士先生表示，他將用這些資金擴大自己的網(wǎng)站。

BEN WELSH: "Then my hope is, is on top of that to build some features specifically targeted to media researchers and media critics so that they'll be able to more-easily access data like this to do an analysis of media coverage."
威爾士：“那我希望除此之外，為媒體研究人士和媒體評論人士建立一個專題，這樣他們就能更容易地獲得這類數(shù)據(jù)來進行媒體報道的分析。

Stephanie Bluestein was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. She is now an assistant professor of journalism at California State University, Northridge. She believes PastPages.org will prove to be a valuable resource.
斯蒂芬妮·布魯斯頓（Stephanie Bluestein）曾是《洛杉磯時報》的一名記者，她現(xiàn)在是加州大學(xué)北嶺分校新聞系的助理教授。她認為PastPages.org將被證明是一種寶貴的資源。

STEPHANIE BLUESTEIN: "Until now we haven't had any archives that's been to this frequency. So now you could go back and look hour by hour and see the placement of what was the lead story, how the headline changed and how one newspaper played a story versus another one. Now you can actually compare.
布魯斯頓：“截至目前，我們沒有任何存檔頻率如此之高的檔案館?，F(xiàn)在你可以回過頭按小時查看頭條新聞的布局，標(biāo)題有何變化。與其他報紙對比，這家報紙如何報道某條新聞。

Professor Bluestein says today's news changes so quickly that even archiving once an hour may soon not be enough.
布魯斯頓教授稱，今天的新聞變化如此之快，即使每小時存檔一次可能還是不夠。