Recently I refiled the office's "web images downloaded" folder into some sort of respectable order, like getting rid of folders called "michael" (created by michael) and attempting to set in place a system that educates the staff by osmosis - for example, project images are filed designer_project rather than 366621521_534ed7f150.jpg (i love flickr but it really becomes quite problematic when clients ask "where is that project?" and the response is "...????... your guess is as good as mine...????... europe somewhere?.. no wait, japan... but i think the designers were dutch...")Then yesterday, while I was out of the office my boss was trying to find an image which he described as "you know, THAT image" followed by some tantie throwing when the image wasn't found and I started to think maybe I should reinstate the "michael" folder for the benefit of all the staff in the office who haven't yet learnt how to read michael's mind. Or perhaps design a way to tag all our images idiosyncratically to our hearts content so we don't have this problem anymore - I wish my technological talents were as advanced as my technological "If only's".
Anyway, I think I will buy this David Weinberger's book "Everything is Miscellaneous" for the office library.
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