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On organizing photos
Aug 17, 2006
Google promises some upcoming improvement to photo-searching... from Official Google Blog: A better way to organize photos?:
It's not always easy to search through your personal photos, and it's certainly a lot harder than searching the web. Unless you take the time to label and organize all your pictures (and I'll freely admit that I don't), chances are it can be pretty hard to find that photo you just know is hidden somewhere deep inside your computer... [but] we've been working to make Picasa (Google's free photo-organizing software) even better...
Automated searches will be helpful, no doubt. But in the end, users still will have to take some responsibility for their bits. I have a simple system - it takes a tiny amount of discipline - that allows me to find my desired photo within seconds, almost every time. And I have thousands of photos going back over five years.
Don't confuse an improved technology with one that solves everything. Such a tool doesn't exist. Bit-literate users will always be more productive than others, no matter what the technology can do.
Filtering plus the two-level rule. I'll write more about it as I have more time for bit literacy writing..