Great perspective.
Link: O’Reilly: The File Manager Is Dead. Long Live the Lifeblog.
Author’s note: When you stop and think about how far computers and multimedia have come in just the last ten years, you can be forgiven for allowing your head to spin a little bit. Our computer hardware is getting so small, and so cheap, so quickly, that we can barely keep up.
What are the implications for a future where digitial photography and video are as everyday as sending email? How do we cope with that much media; store it, browse it, use it? Christian Lindholm, one of Nokia’s chief professional thinkers, has been experimenting with a new kind of weblog that he says offers a first step toward better media management. There’s a long way to go yet, but his ‘lifeblogging’ concept is as good a start as any.
