j’s scratchpad

Today marks the 65th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the major attacks by foreign invaders in the minds of many Americans.

Here are a few Internet sites for the occasion:

*Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 from the US Navy

*Naval Station Pearl Harbor, also from the US Navy

*Remembering Pearl Harbor by National Geographic
*USS Arizona, a ship sunk during the attack that is now a memorial
*Ask.com’s search with their pullouts

How different would coverage of Pearl Harbor have been had weblogs and the Internet been around then? I tried to broach this topic during the blog group, but people didn’t want to talk about it. I think news of the attacks would have spread much faster. Maybe a few days earlier, a blogger might have mentioned seeing planes practicing or something else that might have given a clue about the impending attack. And, had the blogs been archived, we might be able to look back today at a number of first hand accounts. Imagine if people had cell phone cameras and other technologies like we do today. Would it have changed anything had someone photographed the planes coming in?

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