Her experiences taught her a general rule: “it is difficult to explain a Web site to someone who hasn’t seen one.”
Yet for all the gaps among the technology-shunning Amish — grist for stand-up comics — Ms. Best said she was struck by what was familiar in the way news spread among the Amish.
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A reporter from Wales looks at the way the Amish stay up to date. There are some every interesting corollaries to new media. The Amish newspaper the Budget gets reports from 500 scribes who in return for user generated contributions get a free subscription. So you have user generated news. Some scribes have avid followers, and the collection of letters forms a database (though not easily searched since it is on microfiche) of Amish life going back 120 years.
