DAM

Martini Hour 024, In Which Deke Gets His Can of Copyright Worms Spilled All Over Again (by DAM-guy Peter Krogh)

Submitted by colleen on 22 July 2009 - 2:01am.

Ah, I am starting to enjoy this Thursday visit to the dekeLounge. A half-hour with my good buddy Deke and an awesome special guest, and it's like the weekend has already started. And what could be better than a guest who knows what to drink. Not only is Peter Krogh the preeminent expert in digital asset management (that's the DAM acronym we have so much dam fun with, because we're eleven-year-olds underneath our cosmopolitan veneers), but the man requested we have Bombay Sapphire martinis to lubricate our discussion of how to manage all those dam(n) photos.

Fresh off the publication of the second edition of his bestselling The DAM Book, Digital Asset Management for Photographers, here's what Peter had to share over martinis: Read more » 

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Photoshop vs. Adobe Bridge: Beware the Cache, the Cache Must Die!

Submitted by deke on 15 April 2009 - 11:11pm.
Incriminating photograph

dekePod Episode 014: At fourteen, dekePod is officially a teenager. So it's fitting that the topic of this episode takes us into the somewhat adult and potentially salacious territories of sovereignty and privacy. I'm not talking cookies or spyware. Your trusted commercial software--the stuff you pay hundreds of dollars for--may be tracking your every move.

It's like this: Despite the many warnings to the contrary, we tend to imagine that our computers acquiesce to our collective control. No software goes unchecked; no program reveals our misdeeds. And yet, these are exactly the sorts of treasonous acts that a certain group of programs--known as digital asset managers, or DAMs for short--are designed to perform on a daily basis. Read more » 

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