Tue, Sep 5, 2006
Media: Use versus storage
In the past, media products routinely optimized for use and storage; easy to access, presentable archives.
In the past, media products routinely optimized for use and storage; easy to access, presentable archives. Since virtual representations of media can be so much easier to use, physical representations of media can optimize for archiving over use.
A comment from the lab:
I think the CD cases are next. Who ever uses their empty CD cases again really? Seems we all fill up our CD binders for our cars/djing and then have a rack of empty jewel cases at home. And with me, half the CDs are now gone or destroyed, so it’s a complete waste of space to keep them. And everything new is downloaded and on an ipod or something of the sort. I also think I might embark on a project of removing photos from albums and filing them in photo boxes. I managed to rack up almost 20 full photo albums before the world went digital. I never look through them. And they take 2 large heavy boxes to move. Yet another waste :)
On a related note, I think problems still exist for the use of large, virtual collections. I have a rather large library of records, CDs, and cassettes I can navigate, find, and use pretty quickly. My comparable attempts on a computer are much less useful.
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