There and back again

Whew! It's been a while, hasn't it? It's nice to be here and write a post again. For those, who didn't know what happened, here's a quick summary; "Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it." 

Joking aside, last two months was very eventful. First, I injured my right wrist, orthopedist advised not to constrain it, and I had to wear a stent for 3 weeks. In these days I evaluated my blog and decided to make it over to a more original content focused (mostly photography) blog. 

After recovering from injury, I started to apply my make over ideas to the blog, just then a court in Turkey decided to ban the Blogger. (It's a long story involving Turkish soccer league, a digital TV platform, pirates, copyright issues, a stupid lawyer, tech-ignorant judge etc.)   

I was able to access to Blogger at first thanks to DNS settings, but one day all of a sudden I wasn't. Of course there were ways to "infiltrate" to a banned site, but honestly I was not in the mood anymore. 

Anyway. Please allow me a few days to realize my new ideas & complete the make over on the blog. Thanks for your patience. You know, you don't have to hesitate to comment & critique anytime.

Until then, take care...

How to archive & preserve your digital assets?

In the last decade number of digital materials in our daily life turned from snowball to avalanche. Physical archive items such as photographs, films and songs became digital files, which need systematic arrangement. Day by day our digital assets grow and most of us do nothing to arrange them, until the day comes to find an important document, which could not be easily found.

I saw this guide on U.S. Library of Congress' Digital Preservation web site and I thought it might be helpful to you too. U.S. Library of Congress holds the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television programs, radio broadcasts and sound recordings in their digital vaults. So they know their business.

Digital Preservation web site provides tips to help you archive your digital materials effectively. By digital materials I don't mean only photos, music and videos, but your e-mails, personal information and favourite web sites as well. Site gives detailed information on every subject and you can download a PDF of tips too.

Their tips already proved useful for me thus far. Even if you think you are a good archiver you might as well check out what they say.

Facebook obsession around the world with numbers (Infographic)

Believe it or not this is the truth! Wow!


Via: Online Schools