At the end of March I had shoulder surgery to repair a fifty percent tear of my rotator cuff, a SLAP tear of my labrum, as well as cartilage damage which I endured in a racquetball accident. The recovery has been…
I recently tested InsideTracker (Disclosure: They provided me a complimentary test) which offers a bloodwork analysis service that provides you with recommendations to help improve and optimize your health based on the results. Their service aims to improve health to…
Facebook celebrated their 10th birthday by giving users a gift in the way of a video montage called Lookback of our best moments using their service (get yours here). These videos offered a nice look back on our lives shared…
The 2014 Consumer Electronics Show has now come and gone and as the dust settles it’s pretty clear that going into the conference and after its conclusion that the top theme was wearables as evidenced by this or this or this,…
This week I did a radio interview (click link to listen) on KPCC with Kevin Kelly on lifelogging and the quantified self. Trying to do a quick primer on these subjects to an audience that isn’t aware of them can be…
Before I get into writing my thoughts on the topic at hand I wanted to explain that I have been using the term “Digital Preservation” to describe the topic that I began covering in earnest last year. There are many…
The idea of aggregating data from disparate sources is a common issue on the internet and the search for doing this with social services was the impetus for this blog. I started to see this phenomenon become an issue for…
It’s been several years since the last time I changed the design of this site and it was due for a face-lift. I’ve been watching so many new site designs rolling out over the last year or so and have…
I’ve just returned from the 2013 Quantified Self Global Conference and my experience was quite amazing. I have attended several of the QS Los Angeles meetups but this was the first time I went to one of the official conferences.…
Today I read on TechCrunch about the $11.75 Million Basis raised to build what they are calling a “health data hub”. It states that Basis is working to create a central repository for our data from other devices to flow…