Digital memories survive extremes

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital memories
survive extremes

BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital memories
survive extremes 08/01/2004 05:01 PM
A lot tougher than I had thought: .. virtually indestructible .. BBC

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Keep those digital holiday memories safe

Keep those digital holiday memories safe 12/24/2004 12:09 PM
Recent tests have found digital camera media to be safe from airport security X-ray scanners, which should be good news for travelers this holiday season. The tests of scanner models currently in use in the U.S. transportation industry were jointly conducted by the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A), the leading global association for the imaging industry; SanDisk Corporation, a manufacturer of digital media cards; and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Digital cameras and their image storage media can travel safely in either checked or carryon bags, and although they were not explicitly tested, it is likely that images on camera-phones will be safe in either situation as well, according to the test results. Travelers are advised to take more care with cameras with film, however, as the X-ray scanners for both checked and carryon luggage can fog both developed and undeveloped film. The digital camera market is growing quickly, with revenue forecast to reach $24 billion this year, according to InfoTrends/CAP Ventures. The top five worldwide market leaders in 2004 are Canon, Sony, Olympus, Kodak and Fuji. These companies are expected to remain in the top five in 2005, though their rank within the top five may change.

Can The Post Office Survive In The
Digital Age?

Can The Post Office Survive In The
Digital Age? 09/01/2004 08:58 PM
Not sure why there are so many stories today about the potential to go "paperless," but the latest is a story wondering just what's going to happen to the US Postal Service in this electronic age. While some are worried that the USPS can't survive, others think there are plenty of opportunities for them. For example, someone in the greeting card business notes that while electronic greeting cards were expected to harm the paper greeting card business, it's actually helped expand it -- because people stay in touch with more people thanks to email, and still feel obligated to send paper cards for certain occasions. Of course, with so much of our snail mail system focused on bills and checks (to pay those bills) a widespread move towards electronic billing and paying could seriously undermine the post office. Some expect the cost of sending letters to start to increase to make up for this -- though, assuming a reasonable level of price elasticity (maybe not a reasonable assumption), this only seems likely to decrease usage of the post office. Either way, the article notes some European countries are already privatizing postal operations -- though, it doesn't sound like anyone is suggesting that here. In the meantime, most attempts by the USPS to update themselves for a digital age haven 't worked out too well.

Two Airport Extremes

Two Airport Extremes 04/21/2004 05:14 PM
I just read Adam Greenfield's rant on the non-ease of use that he encountered when attempting to setup an Airport... (656 words)

" Nick Coleman: 'Blog of the Year' goes
to extremes "

" Nick Coleman: 'Blog of the Year' goes
to extremes " 12/31/2004 04:55 AM

Nick Coleman: 'Blog of the Year' goes to
extremes

Nick Coleman: 'Blog of the Year' goes to
extremes 12/30/2004 06:27 AM
‘Blog of the Year’ goes to extremes .. Coleman devotes a whole column today .. column in tomorrow's newspaper

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Thanks for the Memories

Thanks for the Memories 12/22/2004 01:10 AM
Besides offsetting taxable gains, Lawrence Meyers' 99.5% loss in Internet Capital Group has made him a wiser investor.

Pac-Man revives memories

Pac-Man revives memories 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
The iconic Pac-Man lives on as a multi-player game which Nintendo is giving away for free.

Other memories of Paris

Other memories of Paris 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

Like a lover who, after the affair has ended, desperately revisits old letters and photos to hold onto the magic, I cannot stop reading about Paris! I ordered Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, edited by Ruth Reichl, while I was in Paris so it would await me upon my return. I've been reading the short articles whenever I have a few minutes break, and it's bringing it all back. What's even more amazing is how many of the spots I know -- and the articles I'm reading were written shortly after WWII! But the streets, cafés, restaurants, and hangouts are all still the same. At least it assures me that when I do return, I'll be able to enjoy many of the same things. As this enjoyable book demonstrates, Paris sure has continuity going for it!

Memories in the Corner of My Eye

Memories in the Corner of My Eye 11/11/2003 05:51 AM
A new gadget incorporated into regular glasses aims to help you remember to bring home the steaks and the agenda for your 3 o'clock meeting -- but lose the glasses and you're on your own. By Louise Knapp.

Memories of vinyl

Memories of vinyl 08/22/2004 09:26 PM
I've been thinking about audio files lately. There are lots of interesting audio blogs these days and I realized that putting audio interviews for my shar ing economy research online would be a neat thing to do. For the last month or so, I've been diving into audio gear and software. (I'll write about all this in another post when I figure out what I'm doing.) During this journey into gadgets past, I stumbled into my vinyl records from my DJ days. Most are promotional records that Rockpool sent me when I was reporting my charts to them, but many were from Mark Stephens. Mark Stephens was my mentor and one of my best friends. He was also the first person I knew who died of AIDS. Mark received tons of promos and he would share some of the good stuff with me. He would jot things down on the record jackets or on little post-its. Since I stopped spinning records, I've allowed several DJs as well as my second-cousin Cornelius to go through my record collection and take what they wanted. What I have now is a 1000+ record collection, almost all from 1988-1990, 90% crap, with very high sentimental value. What do I do with them? I looked into software to convert vinyl to mp3's but it looked like a real pain. The other idea I had was browse my vinyl for stuff I liked, scan the notes and try to find the music on a file sharing network. I should know the answer to this question, but is this illegal?

I seem to be getting into these diary-like entries these days, but digging through old vinyl and reading the little notes from Mark brought back a lot of memories. I'm struggling with how to bring some of those memories into the medium I have today.

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Memories of memory

Memories of memory 07/31/2004 12:42 AM

I saw this picture on Boing Boing. It's a ancient (about 30 years old) hard disk that probably fit about 256K according to a Boing Boing reader.

This iDuck can hold 1000X as much as that disk drive.

And these little 0.2mm RFID chips hold 128K each.

I wonder when they will start selling memory at the drug store in Petabytes per gram...

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Top twenty memories at CC

Top twenty memories at CC 04/04/2005 01:57 AM

I tried limiting this list to ten, but I couldn't do it. There's no way I could really limit it to twenty, even, but I'll go with the first score that come to mind, in no particular order.

(1) Meeting the World's Coolest Man.

(2) Singing karaoke in Seoul with the lawyers of KAFIL, CC's affiliate institution for the newly launched Creative Commons Korea.

(3) Getting a phone call in January 2002 from my former professor and long-time hero Lawrence Lessig -- who, I couldn't be sure, really remembered me -- inviting me to join Creative Commons.

(4) Seeing Gilberto Gil and David Byrne perform Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In" at the WIRED Creative Commons benefit concert.

(5) Brainstorming on and making "Get Creative" and "Reticulum Rex" with Neeru Paharia, Ryan Junell, Benjamen Walker, and Christopher Lydon.

(6) Seeing the Brazilian Portuguese translation of both movies at the launch of CC Brazil.

(7) First trying out the phrase "Some Rights Reserved" at a meeting with the great folks -- and later, friends -- of Rice Connexions.

(8) Talking about rock-and-roll, over beers, with Jamie Boyle, Mike Carroll, and Eric Saltzman after my first CC board meeting in Cambrige, MA.

(9) Sharing countless lunches (and jokes) with CC staff at the Treehouse, on Stanford's campus.

(10) Receiving the amazing going-away gifts of an iPod Shuffle full of CC music and a beautiful CC Taiwan poster from Lessig and the CC team on my last day.

(11) Seeing Grandmaster Flash perform, in a very weird context, at SXSW.

(12) Watching Justin Cone's "Building on the Past" for the first time.

(13) Seeing Christiane's daughter Lara playing with Willem at Larry and Bettina's house.

(14) At Duke's FRAMED! conference, seeing Negativland's Mark Hosler meet, confront, and then make friends with the lawyer who set the U2 brouhaha in motion.

(15) The CC Europe Summit.

(16) Awaking from a nap under my desk to hear everyone from CC and Stanford CIS singing Happy Birthday on my 30th.

(17) Hearing a crazed David Byrne fan tell my mother, age 73 -- at her first rock show ever -- that the song "Psycho Killer" reminded him of her.

(18) Eating at Carl's Jr. at 3am with two members of the Polyphonic Spree.

(19) Experiencing the mayhem before, and the joy during, every Creative Commons party.

(20) Doing an interview, with Lessig and Neeru, with the cartoon blogger Machina in Tokyo.

And there are so many more.

What kills me about putting this list together is to think of all the great things that I will miss out on from today forward.

How we dig up distant memories

How we dig up distant memories 05/06/2004 08:14 PM
Evidence is growing that the brain uses sleep time to consolidate memories acquired during the day.

Thunderbirds and Memories

Thunderbirds and Memories 05/31/2004 05:18 PM
Had a wonderful time taking the kids to the Moffett/NASA Airshow this weekend. Was a shame I had to miss Marc's BBQ. The noise of being front row for a screaming Thunderbird may have tramatized the two year old....

Tulsa TV memories

Tulsa TV memories 07/15/2004 10:02 AM
Mike sez, "With the rise of mega-broadcasting, quirky local television shows have faded into obscurity. Luckily, this site rescues these otherwise forgotten shows that aired in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from the '50s to the '00s. While every American city had its own local flavor, common elements are apparent -- the cheesy horror movie show, the Saturday teen dance party show, and the goofy puppet-based kids show. View all the shows on this detailed site and revel in the evocative memories shared by visitors. A wealth of pictures, audio clips, and video clips adds to the enjoyment. Even if you've never been to Tulsa, this site provides an interesting trip back in time to a simpler era of television." Link (Thanks, Mike!)

...a picture needs memories to be an
image...

...a picture needs memories to be an
image... 11/15/2003 02:20 PM
Time Tales : a collection of abandoned photographs, found at fleamarkets, thriftshops, or just lying on the street

Digging up distant memories

Digging up distant memories 06/16/2004 12:32 AM
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Rommel's son's memories

Rommel's son's memories 06/05/2004 02:50 AM
The son of German commander Field Marshall Erwin Rommel tells how D-Day changed Germany and his family forever.

Bondi Blue Memories

Bondi Blue Memories 03/20/2003 10:40 AM
It's too bad the iMac's trend-setting design couldn't evolve beyond its 15-inch screen size and survive the desktop market pressures. (ITBusiness.ca via MyAppleMenu)

Scanning In Your Memories? Go to the
Source

Scanning In Your Memories? Go to the
Source 12/29/2004 06:19 PM
Scanners can convert slides and negatives to digital files which can then be cropped, color-corrected and e-mailed to friends. Which model is right for you?

Memories of Shaheen at Webvan

Memories of Shaheen at Webvan 04/13/2005 08:07 PM
Blog: "I'm glad George is doing what he is doing." So said Sequoia Capital's Mike Moritz when asked about George Shaheen's unexpected...

VHS Memories Parade Into Your DVD Vault

VHS Memories Parade Into Your DVD Vault 11/13/2003 03:09 AM
New York Times Nov 13 2003 1:50AM ET

Small kids have better memories than
parents

Small kids have better memories than
parents 07/24/2004 01:19 AM
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After the Tsunami: At Home, in Company
of Memories

After the Tsunami: At Home, in Company
of Memories 04/10/2005 03:41 AM
In Banda Aceh, Indonesia, many survivors have returned to their ruined homes to unite themselves with an empty echo of their former lives.

Memories of the Civilian Conservation
Corps

Memories of the Civilian Conservation
Corps 12/21/2003 03:32 PM
The James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, located at http://members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html , is a site containing links, stories, and documents related to the CCC. This site has a surprising amount of depth, more than you'd think from the front page....

Free Press milestone memories

Free Press milestone memories 05/14/2004 03:02 PM
The Wall Street Journal Online published a good piece earlier this week by Carl Bialik capturing a small but significant (and, to me, personally important) moment of Net history. Ten years ago this coming November, I had my first real experience of Web publishing as part of the team that created the San Francisco Free Press, a short-lived by valuable experiment in publishing an online newspaper during a strike against the S.F. Chronicle and the Examiner (where I then worked). Carl quotes me a couple of times, noting that, for me, the choice between (a) marching a picket line in circles while chanting slogans and (b) working on editing and posting files to the Web was a no-brainer. Like just about everyone else quoted in the Journal article, I told Bialik that the Free Press experience changed my life. Afterwards, the return to the Examiner newsroom -- the strike only lasted two weeks -- was an immense anti-climax, and there was no question in my mind that I'd be moving my career on to the Web as fast as I could manage.

Sesame Street: 25 Of My Favorite
Memories

Sesame Street: 25 Of My Favorite
Memories 04/08/2005 01:09 AM

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25 Favorite Sesame Street Memories

25 Favorite Sesame Street Memories 04/11/2005 07:45 PM
“Be cause if Mr. Snuffleupagus is real, anything is possible.”
25 Favorite Sesame Street Memories

iPods Get People Laid And Can Improve
Their Memories, Too!

iPods Get People Laid And Can Improve
Their Memories, Too! 12/19/2004 03:43 PM

iPods have allowed them to create personal playlists that they carry along as a soundtrack to their lives. When they publish their playlists to Rendezvous networks in their dorms, other students surf those playlists to get an idea what people are like. By Mitch Ratcliffe, RatcliffeBlog

Origins of Cyberspace auction: brainiac
memories

Origins of Cyberspace auction: brainiac
memories 02/01/2005 08:37 PM
Xeni Jardin: Click on thumbnail pics in this post for full-size. Following up on yesterday's Boing Boing post about the forthcoming Christie's auction "The Origins of Cyberspace," reader Mike Ransom says:

"One of the items in this auction is the Brainiac Electric Brain Kit, circa 1966 (aka Geniac in the U.S) Insulated wire, battery box, circular masonite multiple-switch disks, and brass jumpers. A kit to teach children the principles of electronic digital computing, designed by Edmund Berkeley, who worked on the Harvard Mark I and II computers. Value: $800-1,200.

"Here is a picture of me in 1967 with a Geniac, an analog computer, a Think-A-Dot, Digi-Comp I and Dr. Nim. I just posted it to the photo section of a Yahoo Group devoted to these early mechanical computers: Link.

"Almost 40 years later, I only have the Digi-Comp I and the one on which I'm typing this note."

Above: a photo of the Brainiac kit.

Steyn: Pacifist Europeans have short
memories

Steyn: Pacifist Europeans have short
memories 11/12/2003 01:16 PM
MARK STEYN SAYS .. choix moral .. Telegraph

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Small kids have better memories than
parents (Reuters)

Small kids have better memories than
parents (Reuters) 07/22/2004 01:31 PM
Reuters - Next time, maybe you'll believe your kid.

Swarovski Crystal Memories Mobile Phone

Swarovski Crystal Memories Mobile Phone 05/18/2004 07:31 AM
Perfect for the family member who is always yakkin', this stylish Swarovski Crystal Memories Mobile Phone keepsake will playfully remind them that they're always on the god damned phone, and would it kill them to maybe pay you some attention once in a while? Artisan-crafted, its intricately detailed 18K gold...

Google float conjures up memories of the
bubble

Google float conjures up memories of the
bubble 05/01/2004 06:36 PM
Independent May 1 2004 9:49PM GMT

So Others Might Survive

So Others Might Survive 04/12/2004 06:07 PM
"Transplant: From Myth to Reality," by Dr. Nicholas L. Tilney. Yale University Press, $30.

How to Survive in IT

How to Survive in IT 01/06/2004 09:22 AM

Downloadable Songs Carry Old Tunes ,
Memories Forward

Downloadable Songs Carry Old Tunes ,
Memories Forward 05/22/2004 11:23 AM
By James Gorman, New York Times News Service (via MyAppleMenu)

"Sesame Street: 25 Of My Favorite
Memories - Progressive Boink..."

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Memories - Progressive Boink..." 04/09/2005 09:08 AM

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