#6 and #7

I could easily spend most of the day exploring the various software one can download to enhance photographs and create cool applications with, but other duties are calling. However, as I tried to geotag my recent upload I was informed that the software no longer tag flickr photos. Instead, I decided to create a postcard but received an oops answer along the lines of "our system is not working properly today." This leads me to point 7 on the 23 things for libraries in which we should discuss a technology issue of our choice.

In yesterday's The New York Times (Sept. 12) I stumbled upon an interesting article entitled "In Digital Age, Federal Files Blip Into Oblivion." It discusses the fact that the federal government is loosing lots of data on a daily basis because nobody knows exactly how to save and manage electronic files, emails and documents produced on laptops and pcs. Unless we want to look back on this era as the "dark ages" of electronic information the federal government and everybody else must try to establish electronic records management plans. This will no doubt be a challenge, but necessary if we want preserve information for future generations. I'm looking forward to learning more about digital preservation as I go through this program.