Although I have never physically attended the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, I have followed its progress for over a decade, and, more importantly, I owe to FLEFF my career as a blogger.
It was in September 2009 that FLEFF co-director Patty Zimmermann approached me to become a “celebrity blogger” on the FLEFF website. She specifically asked me to conceptualize a blog called “Archival Spaces” about film archival issues.
Her most important advice was: “Decide on your digital identity. For FLEFF, our digital identity is intellectual, edgy, inquiring, opening up debates, but featuring accessible writing that will translate conceptual ideas to a larger audience.”
I was intrigued, especially for the opportunity to reach a large audience about archival issues. My first blog, “Memory, Images, History,” was published on 13 September 2009. The title became the subtitle to my blog. That first post was very short and posed the question, “How does knowledge change in cyberspace?
