From Pixels To Digital Dust

We are becoming digital pack rats. I’ve been consistently keeping my sketchbook journal for three months now, and am trying to sketch something, anything at all, in it every day. I’ve gravitated much more towards sketching than digital photography, and one of the reasons is the vast amounts of digital clutter a digicam produces. It’s so easy to take 100 Mb of images in a single outing with a digicam, and since storage is so cheap then keep 90% of the images. It doesn’t take very many sessions to end up with thousands of images, and a cataloguing and digital preservation problem. Sketchbooks stay nice, small, and self-contained, have a longer potential lifespan, and are lots of fun to browse through.

(From The Shifted Librarian)