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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In this month’s Wired there’s an interview with Will Wright that chronicles his rise as a video gaming icon. The story covers how his interest began, and covers all the way through to where he is today. It’s a nice read and near the end of the interview he discusses his latest project. Here’s his …
I’ve written quite a bit about the Quantified Self but if you’re new here you can read my primer here. In this month’s Wired there’s an article on Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops. As I was reading this I immediately was thinking about how the methodology described can have the power to modify our …
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Over five years ago I worked for an online ad network. I was a technical project manager working with the developers who created our custom ad server. I came on board just as we began to roll out the ability to do geographic targeting and later started creating ways to do some basic behavioral targeting. …
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This month’s Wired magazine has a feature called “Ask a Flowchart: Where Should I Post My Photos Online“. It’s a funky workflow that’s done in jest but the reality is that many of us have a very similar and convoluted approach when it comes to determining what services to post our photos to and it …
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I recently wrote about a Gordon Bell story in Wired this month and now Business Week ran one on him as well in advance of his upcoming book release titled Total Recall which covers the story of his “Lifelogging” project. For the last 10 years Gordon has used an assortment of devices to digitally record …
Today I was reading the latest issue of Wired. In it is an interview with Salon Cofounder Scott Rosenberg about his new book Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters. Rosenberg’s book researched the origins of blogging and goes on to discuss how it has become a phenomenon. Wired asks …
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Yesterday Wired posted an article titled 6 New Web Technologies of 2008 You Need to Use Now. One of those technologies listed is Lifestraming. From the story Sites like FriendFeed, Plaxo Pulse and Digsby serve as social-network-activity aggregators. They’re like virtual funnels. Dump in all the notifications, feeds and updates from your various networks, and …
2008 has been a tremendous year for Lifestreaming. When I first began researching Lifestraming back in February of 2007 and then started this blog a month after there were only a few scripts available to create a Lifestream and not a single web service dedicated to them. Since then I have found over 50 services …
It was October of last year when I wrote about a Wired story talking about Plaxo Pulse that generated some of the first rumblings of Lifestreaming entering into the mainstream. Then in January I asked if 2008 would bring Lifestreaming to the masses. Clearly it had now become “Wired” which is a little scary as that sometimes means that …
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