I have been away from blogging for a couple of years. Several things played into this happening and over the next few weeks I will be posting things that will give you some insight as to why. Being able to return to my blog took some work. I tried to get back several times over the past couple of years and always had a problems viewing my blog. Finally, I was able to see my blog long enough to realize that a WIDGET, which used a barcode was outdated. Thus my "theme" for my THEMATIC PHOTOGRAPHIC post on DATA hosted by Carmi Levy at "Written Inc".
This week's the theme is ~DATA~
My view right now is, many others had the same thought that I had when I saw that theme was DATA. To tell the truth, it wasn't a very good thought. Not that it was a bad thought , but more a "What??" "Data??" hmmmm. I was looking forward to posting.
After really thinking about it, I realized that we are so use to all the data in our lives, that we really don't think about it. Yes, I said ALL . . . we use data everyday, several times a day.
We use these cute little things called "barcodes" on almost everything we purchase. A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data relating to the object to which it is attached.
For us, it scans the price of a product we are buying. For the retailer, it provides so much more data. Things like, how many of these items are bought (is this a popular item for the retailer to provide?)and how many are still in inventory.
It track's items that we send to others at a convenient low price. And allows us to know when the item has reached it destination..
This week's the theme is ~DATA~
My view right now is, many others had the same thought that I had when I saw that theme was DATA. To tell the truth, it wasn't a very good thought. Not that it was a bad thought , but more a "What??" "Data??" hmmmm. I was looking forward to posting.
After really thinking about it, I realized that we are so use to all the data in our lives, that we really don't think about it. Yes, I said ALL . . . we use data everyday, several times a day.
We use these cute little things called "barcodes" on almost everything we purchase. A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data relating to the object to which it is attached.
For us, it scans the price of a product we are buying. For the retailer, it provides so much more data. Things like, how many of these items are bought (is this a popular item for the retailer to provide?)and how many are still in inventory.
They can also help us save money. No more wadded up coupons in your purse or pocket.
Of course, barcodes are used on so many more things, Driver's licenses, credit cards, library cards, employment and school identification cards, medical wrist bands as well as entertainment wrist bands and much , much more. Yes, it's true! We live in a world FULL of data.
Don't forget to visit "Written Inc" to see more posts on Data.
3 comments:
Very clever of you to think of that!! and very true that those little lines cover such a lot of info. Good to see you here!
It's the sneaky world of data collection about what we do that bothers me. Supermarkets are expert at it and the bar code is only a small part of it.
To be honest, the first thing I thought of was Data from Star Trek.
Bar codes is a good idea for the theme!
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