I continue to try apps and services to achieve everything I’m looking to do to help facilitate my goals around digital preservation . In a discussion I had with Tom Geller, he told me to take a look at SocialSafe which had been mentioned to him by Gordon Bell as a good service for lifelogging. That’s all the …
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At the June meetup for the Los Angeles Quantified Self group I gave a talk on digital preservation. The talk centered around a 3 step process I created last year to preserve, prepare and produce my digital legacy. I discuss how I created this process for myself and discussed the importance for others to do …
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Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. I concur with this statement that Google opens their blog post announcing a new tool they’ve developed called the Inactive Account Manager. This tool is …
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This week I came across a memorial service called Living Headstones. This company is trying to transform cemetery headstones to incorporate today’s technologies. They state that headstones haven’t changed in 5000 years and they offer internet connected memorials to create an innovative approach to memorialization. What they’ve created is an added value service to their …
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We’re all going to die. We all create digital content and most of us have no plan for archiving our data for future generations after we die. These are two harsh realities that smacked me over the head when I attended a panel at SXSW this year titled “Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death“. The panel …
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Last week Adam Ostrow had a live chat based around his TED talk (see below) on what should happen to our digital identities after we die. The discussion focused a bit on what we want to happen with all the digital content we create after we die including the ability to possibly have an AI …
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I’ve often given thought to how our digital legacy will be preserved after we die. Each day we continue to generate content and leave footprints on so many places online. One post where I delved into this quite a bit was “Thoughts on using a Lifestream to create a memorial“. The concept of the post …
image courtesy of Flickr user Bill Barber The other day I got this email from a reader: Hello, I’m a big fan of your blog and lifestreaming in general. I was wondering if you could help me out. A very good friend of mine passed recently, and I wanted to create an online memorial, reflecting …
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I’ve provided little nuggets of info sprinkled in many posts regarding my insights as to why I’ve always felt the Lifestreaming concept was great. What I’ve never done though, is provide a post telling others why they should be Lifestreaming as well. When I first began covering Lifestreaming, there weren’t any services. In fact there …