i totally agree with both Russel and Duncan
my old box of my Mothers and Aunts photos of life in the 40's and 50 's
are still there , my digital copies are not going to last near that long without a lot of work and moving to what ever format is after cd's and JPG , and JPG sucks .... john

I would never ever tell some one to get ride of a original piece of family history for a COPY , NEVER , copy's are always not as good , and you can never get that photo back , and if you digitize your life and that crashes were do you go , take for example the on line photo site Flicker , it went from free to pay , anyone who did not pay lost all there photos but a small amount , anyone who thinks your facebook account is for ever is fooling them self , one hack and your account is gone , and with people using soft passwords i can see a huge problem , i see a whole generation of family photos gone , nobody prints there photos any more , and if they do print at home on a INKJET well that has a life span in sunlight of almost zero , as you can see i am passionate about people loosing there life to lost data . keep up the good work Nora , but digitizing your life without bigger thoughts is very dangerous , we will see in 25 years when there are no more cd players and MY Real photos will still be here and so will my parents that are now over 50 years old

john

digital life and hard drive crashes and viruses ....

i have a friend who lost his whole daughters wedding to a virus

my hard drive just went down with 57 gig of photos on it

lucky i had backed it up to another drive the month before

57 gig / 4.3 gig DVD's = 13 dvds and thats just 1 folder .... to backup

people who digitize there life some times LOOSE it ALL ,

photos last for hundreds of years jpg the worst file type to save a photo

will die in a hart beat .

i missed most of your show today i would hope there would be a bit on BACKUP