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 terms used for keeping digital content alive over time. In fact there are disagreements on …
Looking Back on 2013 and Thoughts on What to Expect in 2014 Read More »
I have continued to monitor and test many new apps and services as well as following news as it relates to lifelogging, quantified self, and digital preservation. Unfortunately I’ve been very busy with my day job at XPRIZE and many other things which is why I haven’t written many blog posts this year. It also …
Some Updates on Plans for the Site and How to Follow Updates Read More »
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 …
My Talk on Digital Preservation at Quantified Self Los Angeles Read More »
Over the years I’ve struggled with how I could provide links to news, tips, and other information that I come across related to what I cover on this blog. In some cases I merely want to share, but in others I may want to add a little commentary or create a mini-post around the link. …
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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 …
How Memorial Services are Being Transformed by Technology Read More »
2012 was a year where I began covering some broader areas. While I continue to follow services that do social aggregation as well as services that leverage social data, I continue to focus quite a bit more on personal data as well. I’ve been following sensing devices that focus on gathering data to help improve …
Thanks to Sam Aminisam I came across this amazing video of Noah Kalina who started a project 12 years ago to take a photo of himself every day. I’ve seen quite a few of these projects that last one year or even a few years but haven’t come across one that is done so well …
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Last week WolframAlpha announced the release of personal analytics for Facebook.This comes several months after we learned at the Quantified Self blog that Stephen Wolfram is an avid self tracker. Sure there’s been some other services that have provided some statistics by connecting to your Facebook data but none have had the power of Mathematica …
Generate Rich Personal Analytics from your Facebook Data with WolframAlpha Read More »
Last week through an Engadget post I learned of a Microsoft patent filing for ‘life streaming’. The filing describes ‘life streaming as: A system and method for analyzing, summarizing, and transmitting life experiences captured using a life recorder is described. A life recorder is a recording device that continuously captures life experiences, including unanticipated life …
My Thoughts on the Microsoft Lifestreaming Patent Read More »
Ever since I first heard about the Locker Project and Singly, I’ve been anxiously waiting to see what apps would be built on the platform, knowing that a lifestreaming service would surely be created. Well it’s been over a year since the original announcement and the wait is now over with the public release of Showw.me. …
Showw.me is the First Lifestreaming Service Built on the Singly API Read More »