"Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Digital Dust Bunnies," Dec. 28, 2010.
For many of us, the end of the year is a time to take stock of one’s life. It’s also, for me, the time when I weed my drawers and files of unneeded contents. That job has gotten more complicated over the years, since so much of what I hold on to is in digital form.
How is it that digital files have become like so many digital dust bunnies, multiplying and gathering lint? All those documents and emails that might be useful one day, cluttering my digital environment and taking up space on a hard drive – how do I decide what to eliminate? And if I keep a file, where do I put it so that I’ll remember about it and can find it when that eventual, possible use arises?
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