Talk:Current events

Contents of This Page
Here are my evolving thoughts on what we might put here. All items should include a hyperlink leading to further information.

Bogleheads Happenings


 * 1) News concerning the website.
 * 2) Upcoming national and chapter Diehards meetings. Comprehensive reports from recent past meetings are OK also.
 * 3) Upcoming media appearances by individual Bogleheads. Links to transcripts/recordings of recent past appearances are OK also.

News from External Sites

Ken Schwartz 11:32, 4 June 2008 (EDT)
 * 1) Upcoming/recent launches/changes concerning investment products of interest to Bogleheads.
 * 2) Recent changes to tax laws likely to affect Bogleheads.
 * 3) Vanguard's Economic Week in Review . I view this item as a close call, and I doubt we should include other listings of this type. Bogleheads may find economic articles interesting, but we don't really have to worry about the economic news because we have a longer term perspective. Two things we should definitely avoid in this kind of item:
 * 4) *Articles which emphasize opinions as opposed to facts. This page is about current events, not current opinions. Economic opinion tends to have political overtones.
 * 5) *Articles with very short shelf lives. A news item about the release an hour ago of a key economic report may be quite factual, but it will be obsolete within a day. Running a headline service would require too much maintenance.

Updating and Archiving

 * Here is how Wikipedia handles the current events page:Current Events This may give some idea as to formatting, as well as archiving. Blbarnitz 12:39, 4 June 2008 (EDT)

Barry, thanks. I edited your post above, replacing "wiki" with "Wikipedia." Our needs are much lesser by orders of magnitude than Wikipedia's, of course. I hadn't thought of archiving our old Current Events. Do you think we need to? Ken Schwartz 12:48, 4 June 2008 (EDT)
 * I would assume that a current events log would have a time frame; i.e. listings would appear for a week or a month and then be replaced with a new week/month tabulation of events. Since you plan on recording transcripts of meetings, press appearances etc. I assume you do not want these to permanently disappear each month as the page is updated. Thus these pages would need archiving if one wanted to keep of them.Blbarnitz 12:58, 4 June 2008 (EDT)

OK. As is obvious, my ideas for this page are in their infancy. (I just hated seeing it blank.) I'll try to develop over time an updating/archiving scheme which makes sense for us. Ken Schwartz 13:05, 4 June 2008 (EDT)