A talk for Defrag 2008. Just starting to think about all the great work people like Jones & Coates have been doing.

1. Under sousveillance: personal
informatics & techniques of the self

2. sr bna

3. Are we too infatuated
with the present?

5. The past is not dead.
Itʼs not even past.

6. bullet time apps for data

7. The strategic idea
of the archive
is a
refreshed now.

8. What happens when
we help people make
invisible life patterns
visible?

9. watching you watch yourself

10. Blame Coates & Jones

12. Clickstreams
Location
Taste data
Status updates
Social connections
Photos/writing/bookmarking
Financial data
Email/phone/SMS/IM
Smart objects
External sources

13. Where is the Kayak for my life?

14. “People check their stats like
crack addled gerbils.”
Matt Mullenweg

50. * Discovery
* Wayfinding
* Validation
* Analytics
* Documentation

52. It should be ambient.

53. It should be visual.

54. It should be ubiquitous.

55. It should create a dialog
between the self and the group.

56. “Information
processing dissolving
into behavior.”

57. “Everyware is always situated
in a particular context.”

58. “The appeal of everyware is at
some level universal.”

59. Caveats:
* Making explicit what was latent
* Need to see the beautiful seams
* Interconnection brings emergent,
unexpected consequences
* We donʼt know the privacy issues yet
* Avoid the ʻset upʼ problem
* Managing ongoing user expectations
* Structure v. experimentation

60. Many thanks to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiveinchpixie/527148477/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heather/2904402/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoonie/27555176/
http://flickr.com/photos/toughkidcst/2959726563/

61. brianoberkirch.com
photo by Lane Hartwell