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Always available Personal Data + Personal Algorithms = Programs that matter. Inspired by David Ascher's Personal computing in a decentralized world: a hopeful direction. What if you could keep all of your personal data and personal algorithms in two places so that you always had a backup?

1. In your home on something cheap and cheerful like a Raspberry Pi AND
2. With you at all times in your pocket or on your wrist with a portable use anywhere computer like the StormFly.

What if programming wasn't so hard that you had to learn something so rigid like Pascal (the language of Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs) or C++ or even JavaScript but something approachable and more flexible (e.g. IFTTT, scratch, heck even a more accessible version of R). I predict that would allow people to use their personal data in all sorts of "helpful in real life" ways we can't even imagine!

And I don't see why this won't be possible in less than 10 years if not sooner.

• always backed up
• personal data
• personal algorithms
• data
• data structures
• algorithms
• the cloud
• stormfly
• raspberry pi
• programs that matter
• niklaus wirth
• pascal
• c++
• JavaScript
• programming doesn't haven't to be difficult
• power programming for everybody
• computing for everybody
• always available
• ifttt
• scratch
• r language

If you insist on using email as a file management system, archive system, CRM, database, contact system, knowledge management system , etc then learn how to backup your email and practise restoring your email because it will inevitably fail no matter how reliable your email server and client are. If you don't have time, then pay somebody or do the right thing and move stuff out of email to CRM, blogs, wikis, to-do systems, etc!

• backup
• restore
• email will fail
• email is not a database
• email is not a CRM
• email is not a contact system
• email is not a knowledgement system
• email
• knowledgement
• email is not a file system
• email is not a to-do system
• email is not an archival system
• email is not a knowledge management system
• knowledge management

For the 3 people who care :-)

1. Instead of Google Reader I am using The Old Reader; except for having no business model that I can detect :-) (where do I pay?!?) But it has the all "Old Pre Google+" Google Reader features such as sharing items. If you are a "The Old Reader" user you can follow me directly like in the good 'ole Google Reader days: http://theoldreader.com/profile/roland
2. If you prefer to follow my shares on Google Reader you can do it here: http://rolandgoodbits.tumblr.com/

• google plus
• google+
• the old reader
• tumblr
• google reader
• rolandgoodbits

Email is not an archival system, file system, knowledge management system or a to-do system. If you think it's anything but a dumb temporary message store, you are "doing it wrong" :-) as the kids say. Email is where knowledge goes to die as I blogged about (AFAIK Bill French coined this phrase back in 2003)

Anything valuable in email should be gardened immediately into a blog, wiki, etc. Don't expect to keep every email and don't try; it's futile and not worthy of your attention. Instead mine the knowledge in your email and keep that!

• email
• knowledgement
• email is not a file system
• email is not a to-do system
• email is not an archival system
• email is not a knowledge management system
• knowledge management
• email is not a database

There are countless geeky, nerdy, folks in late 2012 "whingeing" :-) about

1. how they used to take great DSLR photos but  it was too heavy & inconvenient to post photos,
2. so they switched to a cameraphone
3. but are tired of its bad photos.

Simple solution:

1. buy a $150 dollar point and shoot like the Canon Powershot A2400 which you can get for $70 (or a $200 Olympus E-PL1 or EPM-1 with the  Olympus bodycap lens for $59 if you want something even more awesome for $260 instead of $150 or less),
2. a $99 Eye-Fi card.
3. Carry the camera in your pocket at all times.
4. Post photos from the Eye-Fi via your cameraphone's WIFI access point

This makes it convenient and quick like your cameraphone but gives you much better image quality that doesn't require filters of doom to make the photos "interesting"!

• filters of doom
• filters of destiny
• iphone
• stop whingeing
• first world problems
• canon powershot a2400
• olympus e-pl1
• olympus e-pm1
• point and shoot
• stop whingeing about your cameraphone
• cameraphone
• olympus bodycap lens
• eye-fi wifi sd card

Nikon V1 with kit zoom for $299 might as well be free (excellent deal for a mirrorless camera w/EVF, great auto-focus; only problem is the lens line up is not yet anywhere near complete). Points out how desperate the camera manufacturers are and how much camera oversupply there is.

I really think that one or more of Sony, Olympus, Ricoh, Pentax, or Samsung will exit the camera business in the next ten years (my prediction would be Olympus even though I love their cameras and Ricoh and perhaps Sony).

Two reasons:

1. Too many me too cameras that aren't social cameras, and
2. competition from cameraphones which is the only camera that most people will ever buy and use in the near future and cameraphones won't be made by "traditional camera makers"

• sony
• ricoh
• nikon v1
• v1
• social camera
• all cameras will be social cameras
• olympus
• panasonic
• pentax
• samsung
• traditional camera makers are doomed