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Archive for May, 2009
Rain from the Cloud needs filtering
May 27th
I love ubiquity. Especially across personal devices. With services like 
Google and the venerable Microsoft Exchange Server I can quite simply pump unified data up to the cloud and have it rain back down on me in a sea of data that holds my life together. There is however one big drawback. Does everything really need the cloud?? Ok so it is all easier if it is up in the cloud but maybe the rain from the cloud needs filtering?
As much as I love having access to files with Dropbox, E-mail (read as Gmail), Calendar info with Gcal or Exchange the ubiquity comes at a cost of often times redundant data. That redundancy is what impurifies the data and ends up making me want filtered rain water.
Of course many would say that data redundancy is user ID-10T error related. Maybe the data I am flowing up to the cloud needs to be purified before it evaporates into the ethereal plane of 1′s and 0′s. But really I think the cloud should be “intelligent” and could see the identical data. Then not only should it register multiple items and maybe merge the two as one but should do so and stream in related information that is in other parts of my cloud so as to enrich the rain with minerals. Nuggets of information that was caught from all the rest of the bit stream and placed when a pattern is realized.
Maybe what I am talking about is not really doable… maybe the stream needs to be purified before sent to the cloud… maybe I am not wanting to use my brain enough and am just being lazy…
Or maybe I could put my cousin’s birthday party on my calendar and contact, address, and shopping preference information could come up.
Maybe I am just crazy.
Old Photo Hunt
May 10th
So one thing that we take for granted in this digital age is the Photo shoebox. You know the type. Stuffed under some bed somewhere full of 4×6 35mm images taken from who knows when of who knows who for who knows what reason. Now with the prevalence of digital photography and sites like flickr, picasaweb, and facebook we have years and years of images stored digitally but sometimes we don’t have that same organic experience of cleaning out under the bed and rediscovering a treasure trove of images from a bygone day.
So this is your time.
As a photographer I challenge you to go on your profiles here, on flickr, wherever and try to find some old photos. Some of your OLDEST photos that you could ever find and post them. Just revisit some past memories this way.
Ok so I know I am weird but I just hit up my sites and found some pictures that brought a smile to my face.
