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Team Digital Preservation and the Planets Testbed

16 August 2010

Last week, Team Digital Preservation released the 5th animation in their amusing take on the digital preservation problem.
In this episode, the topic is…virus protection and analysis!

Blizzard and his band of evil cronies, Team Chaos, have developed a devastating new weapon. But Never Fear trusty Viewers, tune in now to find out what those wonderful whizz-kids [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Arctic Mountain Adventure

9 July 2010

Team Digital Preservation released the 4th animation in their hilarious series on digital preservation this week.
In this episode, the topic is preservation planning, one of my areas.

Digiman is baby sitting his niece and nephew for the weekend, but things go horribly wrong when he sends them out on an arctic mountain adventure. Never fear trusty [...]

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The Project Management Tree Swing Cartoon, Past and Present

8 July 2010
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The project management tree swing cartoon below is famous amongst those of us who have engaged in any kind of software project management. I first came across it in the late 1990s, when I managed small projects at a regional data communications company. I remember printing it out and hanging it in my cubicle, [...]

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Gaiman’s “MirrorMask” Library Cleverness

20 February 2010
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This past week I watched Neil Gaiman’s “Mirror Mask“. The book-as-film chronicles the dream of a teenager whose mother has become ill and is undergoing surgery. In the scene below, the teenager, Helena, goes to the library with her New Best Friend, Valentine, to find clues to a missing charm. They arrive via flying books [...]

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The BooneOakley.com “Un-site” — They “Get It”

2 February 2010
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I admit I was left unimpressed by my first view of an “un-site“. I thought it was a clever-but-messy way to tame all of an organization’s online data, but the “site authors” (in quotes because it isn’t a web site) were trying too hard.
In the same post, the authors of The Social Path also linked [...]

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Is “Information Management” Hype?

29 January 2010
Is Information Management Hype?

I enjoyed watching this video from 2008. It begins with a variety of quotes and mis-quotes by technology experts beginning in 1899, using an early 1900s moving pictures style of graphics. The author then uses images of streams of data and a catchy Elvis song to throw (unsourced) facts and figures out about data use, [...]

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An Information Management Fairy Tale

23 January 2010
An Information Management Fairy Tale

This is a story about a young dragon, Data Quality, who settles in a shire, far, far away. He seemed harmless at first, so he was ignored. Then he grew into a menace, and the villagers hired a knight to fight the dragon and found the fountain of knowledge.
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Team Digital Preservation and the Deadly Cryptic Conundrum

20 January 2010
Team Digital Preservation and the Deadly Cryptic Conundrum

“Team Chaos have struck again! But do not fear, Team Digital Preservation are on hand, in what could be their funniest adventure yet.”
This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.
This is the latest release (as of this writing) of a series of animations [...]

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A Hat Tip to Cat Herders

19 January 2010
A Hat Tip to Cat Herders | Project Managers

A friend of mine emailed me this morning to say that I should have used wild kitties as the theme of this blog rather than wild horses. He does have a point.
This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.
This is a hat tip [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Aeroplane Disaster

18 December 2009
Team Digital Preservation saves the world from mid-air disaster caused by the work of Team Chaos

“Team Digital Preservation saves the world from mid-air disaster caused by the work of Team Chaos.”
This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.
This is the second animation of Digital Preservation Europe’s series on digital preservation.

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