[Web4lib] Next new thing?

[Lars Aronsson]

Sloan, Bernie wrote:
> First we had blogging, and then podcasting.
> What's the next new up-and-coming thing along these lines?

Many people are now in their first decade of e-mail, digital 
(still and video) photography, blogging, digital music collection 
building, etc.  In the coming decade many will learn about 
archiving, backup, loss and aging of personal digital materials.  
Some will fade like color photos from the 1950s.  But there are 
also big hopes of being able to search decades past.

We will need better ways to organize (and add metadata to) our 
personal collections for the purpose of future recall.  Where was 
this photo taken?  And who are the people?  Do I have any photos 
of aunt Mary?  How can I find them?

If we can manage our digital collections over time, the 2nd 
millennium AD will seem like the dark ages, just like we are now 
used to view the time before the printing press.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se