The cheat lives like a natural Chaplinesque aristocrat of humble origins who owes his fortune to his physical gifts and his poker face and whose exploits, like those of the famous stage actor Guitry, would have been lost to history without the art of recording.

NEWYORKER: The Story of a Cheat

"Each meteorite is a time capsule and space probe recording the history of our solar system from 4.5 billion years ago, " said Caroline Smith, curator of meteorites at London's Natural History Museum.

WSJ: Russia Meteor Was Largest in More Than a Century

Colorado has a history of taking privacy matters seriously: State law prohibits the recording of electronic communication without the consent of the sender.

NPR: Text Privacy Issue Heats Up at Colorado School

Twitter haters can go on scoffing that tweets are only ephemeral bits of frivolous information, but the Library of Congress has just ratified the importance of social media in recording history.

CNN: Who said tweets are trivial?

For some it's a case of recording events for the history books, others will note the need to witness events as an outsider, while others will immerse themselves in a cause and become part of the event.

BBC: iPhone photo app aims at relief effort

Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is to seal its place in history at the US Library of Congress as part of its National Recording Registry.

BBC: Pink Floyd album to be preserved by US Library

Viet Nam has entered what is known as the period of golden population, recording the highest proportion of young people ever in the country's history.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN HA NOI

The recording is among the earliest held by the Smithsonian Institution, which runs the National Museum of American History.

BBC: Phone pioneer speaks for first time in 128 years