Comments on: Turns out it’s called lifestreaming http://nathanhowell.net/2008/01/20/turns-out-its-called-lifestreaming/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:52:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Creeva http://nathanhowell.net/2008/01/20/turns-out-its-called-lifestreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Creeva Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:54:00 +0000 nathanhowell.net/2008/01/20/turns-out-its-called-lifestreaming#comment-6 I'll give you the fact that your earlier thoughts on life streaming is correct - it is too much information. That being said - you need to look at who this is for. Most people don't care about everything I do and I've pruned my RSS feeds that I give to the public down so they only get the useful information. I archive and save this data for myself - and like the pictures people take of their children growing up, there is never a thing as too much information. It may be too much information at this point in time - but when personal data mining takes place in a few years as the next hot trend - and archive of this data will be very useful to find trends of different points of your life that you may otherwise forget (or wished you would have forgotten but google reminds everyone anyways). I’ll give you the fact that your earlier thoughts on life streaming is correct – it is too much information.

That being said – you need to look at who this is for. Most people don’t care about everything I do and I’ve pruned my RSS feeds that I give to the public down so they only get the useful information.

I archive and save this data for myself – and like the pictures people take of their children growing up, there is never a thing as too much information.

It may be too much information at this point in time – but when personal data mining takes place in a few years as the next hot trend – and archive of this data will be very useful to find trends of different points of your life that you may otherwise forget (or wished you would have forgotten but google reminds everyone anyways).

]]> By: Nathan http://nathanhowell.net/2008/01/20/turns-out-its-called-lifestreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Nathan Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:54:00 +0000 nathanhowell.net/2008/01/20/turns-out-its-called-lifestreaming#comment-7 Thanks for your comments, Creeva. I actually agree with you completely. Having all my data in a nice explorable place opens up all kinds of really interesting possibilities. Controlling what gets into my public lifestream (or other streams for friends, family, etc.) is just part of it. Thanks for your comments, Creeva. I actually agree with you completely. Having all my data in a nice explorable place opens up all kinds of really interesting possibilities. Controlling what gets into my public lifestream (or other streams for friends, family, etc.) is just part of it.

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