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 challenging to do in a short period of time. It’s a bit of a shame …
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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. It was held at the beautiful Golden Gate Club at the Presidio in San Francisco. …
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This week I came across this video interview with Quantified Self co-founders Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf that was conducted by Thomas Goetz at the Wired Living by Numbers conference last year in New York. The interview begins with them explaining the origin of QS which was born in 2007 with each of them coming …
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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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It’s been just over two weeks ago that the very first Quantified Self conference took place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. If you don’t know what the Quantified Self is you can learn more on my initial post about the site here. But the cliff notes version is that the group …
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Lifelogging is the process of tracking personal data generated by our own behavioral activities. While Lifestreaming primarily tracks the activity of content we create and discover, Lifelogging tracks personal behavior data like exercising, sleeping, and eating. This may sound a bit confusing but hopefully the distinction between the two makes sense. The term Lifelogging was coined …
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Lifestream Posts & Pages for October 29th 2007: From shoebox to performative agent: the computer as personal memory machine — Van Dijck 7 (3): 311 — New Media & Society – From author José Van Dijck comes an interesting article that covers Lifestreaming CleverClogs: Basics of Attention Profiling through APML – An easy to understand …
If you read my post “Lifestreaming named in top 10 future web trends” then you saw I mentioned Yowassup.com. Today I got a message via Pownce from Thomas Huhn who is the founder of the site. The message included a screenshot of the dashboard. I asked Thomas if I could share it with my readers …
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Tumblr Takes 750K Series A – More proof that investors are now funding Lifestreaming. Tumblr gets funding Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter? – Mashable’s news on the Google purchase of Jaiku. Lifestreaming finally hits the big time in the form of a major acquisition Share Personal Memes on Meemi – Mashable info on …
Jackie Plage wrote me a few days back to let me know about a new custom script that her friend Steffen Larsen had written that utilized SimplePie to create a Lifestream. Jackie’s post provide the details to this and you can see her Lifestream using the script here. There aren’t many scripts out there to …
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