Well, I'm all prepared for my tutorial - slides and workbook are done, I just need to practice it about twenty times. I haven't given a three-hour talk in a good few years, so I really need to practice the timings.
To celebrate, I hacked on a few outstanding issues in Memories, and I added album support. Albums are useful as well as tags because whereas tags are a public classification, albums are your private way of saying that you want to group particular photos together. They're more like a knapsack than a photo album, because soon there'll be an option to bulk download all the photos in one of your albums. I may also add a bulk upload-to-photobox to make printing easier.
So much for getting photos out of the system, how about putting them in? I think I've decided to use Memories for all my photo storage, and now I've got to work out (a) how the heck I'm going to get everything out of iPhoto and into Memories, (one instance inside college and one instance outside college, and not much overlap between the photos which should go on each) and (b) how to tag 2000 photos. The answer to both these problems seems to be iPhoto keywords. And, to the second question, lots of time and hard work.
I have become folksonomy Barbie - tagging is hard!
Off to Oxford on Sunday for a few days.
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