I often scour the web looking for the latest newsworthy items related
to caving and try to post them
to CaveTex the second that they become available. I have been doing
that for several years, off and
on, but especially during times when work is slow.
In an effort to compromise with those of you who find my post
irrelevant or even detestable,
I am going to make a minor change to this effort:
I will not report anything that is on the "major" news networks, or
Caving News ( Facebook )
or on the NSS forums, or Onlinecavers.com, or on various Texas grotto
webpages or their Facebook
pages. If you really want to keep abreast of the latest news, you
will just have to go search for it yourself.
If a story ( like the current one in the news which hasn't been posted
yet ), falls on the border-line of that rule,
I will wait 24 hours before posting it, to give another caver a chance
to get the warm fuzzy feeling from hitting
the Send button, and enjoy the feedback they get from the positive
cavers and also the backlash from
the negative cavers, and the ridicule/humiliation from the TSP.
I will try my best to resist the urge to criticize other's post (
probably going to epic failure at that one ).
There is so much to talk about related to caving that is new. The
internet is saturated with new videos,
and new LED lights, and new things that help the environment ( which
may help caves directly or indirectly ),
and I feel people are either too scared to post something new, or they
are too busy, or some other reason
that they don't post something interesting to read. I like to be enlightened.
I am testing a new LED light I bought last week, but I am not going to
tell you anything about it. You will
either have to ask, or go to my sites I have mentioned before. I
will not report anything from the major
LED light forums, unless it is revolutionary.
If you wish to watch the latest caving videos on YouTube, just go to
YouTube, and type "cave and the month, year"
in the search box, and you will find new videos. To find the
foreign videos, which are often amazing, you will
have to be more persistent. I will try my best to only mention new
videos that are noteworthy.
I have said this several times before, but I try to make an effort to
write something that is new or interesting
when I post something. I feel CaveTex needs more interesting post.
The recent wave of post last week
made my Blackberry beep dozens of times, and some of the post could
have been handled differently,
or I just need to figure out how to make it not beep when a CaveTex
post arrives.
You can set Google News to search for words like: caving, cave,
speleo, stalagmite, bats, cave-diving, etc, and
it will notify you of new news stories. So I will not post
anything I find on Google News, unless it is something
that is noteworthy.
I hope that CaveTex improves and continues to provide new information to cavers.
I feel that if you went back and took a look at the thousands of
CaveTex postings over the years, that some creative person could
probably
single out 10 of being worth re-printing or organizing into some
readable article to put on the web somewhere. A majority of the old
post
would be obsolete for that purpose or not relevant anymore. That
person could probably be "nominated" for a speleo-historian award.
David Locklear
caver in Fort Bend County
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