I do use a Digital Photo Frame as well, having a new son its a great way to keep the Grandparents appraised of the lil mites progress, especially with the advent of wireless frames like the eStarling that you can email pictures to directly. (learn more here http://www.udiggit.com ).

Is the Photo Album really dead, I dont think so just yet.

Clippinger turns to Robin Dunbar and colleagues to show that there is a correlation of neocortex development (thinking and problem solving) and membership size in social groups.
…the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens can in large measure be at…

I give Tufte the benefit of the doubt, that he used poor prototypes to make his points. No one needs high precision stock figures, if you do, you have to why are you relying on the iPhone to provide them. I would argue Tufte did not show us how he would implement his thoughts and the methods by which he demonstrated were challenged, hence my post.

Tufte didn’t design anything, he offered his usual rules. As with anything, they are made to be broken, but thoughtfully considered. All this to say that I agree with you, the iPhone aught not become a Tufte landscape, but application developers, user experience professionals and information architects need to push harder to not simply fix design, but evolve the current state of the art, considering a variety of thinkers, Tufte but one.

The debate has nothing whatsoever to do with the jelly bean/cartoonish appearance of the design and everything to do with ease of use. Tufte’s solution is, in fact, not as easy to use as the iPhone’s design for those users who only need to know the most essential information about their stocks and the weather. For those extremely few users who need to know those things in great detail, Tufte’s apps may be useful. I suspect, however, that he has reached a point of fetishizing the elegant display of large amounts of information at the expense of considering the context of usage of said information. I also suspect his critique is inspired by his particular design tastes.

The rate of decline is apparent from film sales — since only people who buy film need to have it developed. Over the last four years, the sale of film has been dropping at a rate of 25 to 30 percent each year. In 2006, 204 million rolls were sold, a quarter of the 800 million sold at the peak in 1999.

There is no dearth of images. In the heyday of film, said Mr. Liem, some 25 billion images were not just captured but printed as well. By 2009, as the use of digital cameras continues to grow, some 135 billion images will be captured, but far fewer printed. Instead, those images tend to stay on people’s computers in electronic shoeboxes. The challenge, say companies like Kodak and Fujifilm, is getting people to print those images out.

At the end of the day, a market approaching the entire size of scrapbooking has seen its slice of the pie shrink considerably. Film processing is down which means less photographs exist past pixels. The people making up the scrapbook market are spending more money on bedazzelers, die cuts and glue.

I am still stunned that so many people scrapbook!

You’ll also see home shopping segments devoted entirely to scrapbooking gadgets and materials. Once you have it in your RAS scrapbooking seems to show up everywhere.

I did a quick google search and suggestions are that scrapbooking is a $1-$6.5 billion industry.