Here was the lead story on the morning news ...
"The Alaska governor's office, which is handling the release, is distributing a total of 132 boxes on Friday and another 18 boxes on Monday to news outlets, several state offices and state legislators who requested them and paid the more than $700 copying fee for each set of documents."
OK, let me get this straight.
The Alaska governor's office is taking digital information and turning it into paper instead of just releasing the information in digital form.
Sigh.
So is it safe to assume then that the official record of these email communications is the paper version?
Sigh.
And also safe to assume that all the metadata associated with these communications is of no interest?
Sigh.
And to make things even nuttier, the Washington Post is reportedly looking for 100 volunteers to crowdsource finding juicy paper needles in this paper haystack. For information THAT WAS IN DIGITAL FORM TO BEGIN WITH.
Sigh.
As I have said many times in presentations, continuing to apply paper based assumptions to digital information that is further and further removed from paper is like .
Sigh. I wish I had a sports car.
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