My third lesson of digital media is started with a series of question about how we cope with information. After answering all the 20 questions, I realized managing the informations is such a hard work that really sucks.
There are so many information that I received in my daily life. For example, the documents of society stuff, knowledge from school lesson, news from media, friend's status from Facebook, etc. I think the information that I get a day can already filled up a 1GB memory stick. Therefore, besides just memorizing, I need to store some information into my desktop computer, which is capable of 300 GB. (but now only 20GB is left for storing further data....)
My way to store information is using the hierarchical taxonomies. I think it's okay for me to use it as I used to divide different information into different categories of files. However, there are still times that I cannot find the documents I need in my computer as I forgot which category I have located that into. But after this lesson, I know another way to manage my information, which is called tagging. It focuses on relationship between information items that I believe can reduce the chance of forgetting the categories. But unfortunately, I can not do that in my computer as it's not from apple. If i have chance, I would like to try this method.
