Thursday, July 19, 2007

Are you a tech type?

Modern technology has done a lot to help society and news. One of them many things we use is a FTP site…I know some are now asking what that is? (I will give you the very non-technical answer because I don’t know I could give you the technical one.) An FTP site allows you to share video and pictures from all over the place. We use this kind of site to get video from one station to another. Sometimes is much easier said than done.

My story starts yesterday when I was trying to get a story from another station by way of the FTP site. I know how to use the site and have on several occasions. In a perfect world knowing information will make life very easy. What should have been a very quick and easy tool was about to make my night very difficult. 

With all the equipment we have and are trained to use this really is one of the easier things…simply drag and drop what you are looking for and it’s over. After more than 2 hours of trying everything under the sun the clouds parted and it finally worked. Nothing was broken, we all knew how to use FTP site but it just didn’t like us when we wanted it to work. (Technical stuff seems to have a mind of its own sometimes.)

I often wonder how hard it was to do my job before computers and other technical stuff we are faced with everyday. I know it is suppose to make my life easier but after a night like that I am not so sure anymore.

Erin