Google is now officially the evil empire for all other big tech players, as Microsoft used to be. Every day, there is yet another news flash on how someone is standing up to the Big G, with Apple recently leading the charge.
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25Jan
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15Dec
Interesting discussion (podcast) between Roger Faxon, head of EMI Music Publishing and the Economist. Specifically interesting in the context of this blog is the comparison between our past collections of LPs/CDs and current music playlists. In the past, we organized our music on a shelf, pre-packaged container by pre-packaged container. Other than deciding (or not) on the specific physical location of a particular package (LP or CD), we did not have much to do with how our music was organized. Today, we are constantly organizing and re-organizing (or at least, have the tools to do that) our music library, consisting of a collection of digital tracks of music. Because these are basically pieces of digital information, they can also be organized within a larger library of all types of digital information. And of course, they can be linked and shared with other personal and communal libraries.
We are all librarians now. We have direct knowledge of and experience in organizing information.
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08Dec
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24Aug
The September issue of Wired has a 1-page update on Gordon Bell’s MyLifeBits project in which he attempts to store all the data he processes daily. We get a glimpse in the article of what he backed-up so far, but no word on the growth rate of his personal data.
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