Day 0
This is the haphazard unofficial start to something which has already begun.
This website and publishing platform will server as a portal for my life online.
A lifelog.
All of the photos from my iPhone, location checkin-ins, tweets, status updates, essays, and articles just to start. The incredible power of the iPhone to provide geo timestamped input instantly online from anywhere, is only the beginning of what technology will be able to record and tell us about ourselves.
In my mind, having all of this self published content residing primarily among so many other networks is unfortunate.
The reality of crashing hard drives, or sites going down, or the lack of data portability and durability in general, has prevented me from freely creating and inputing data as I need.
So from today on I am attempting to free my mind from blocks to creativity.
The architecture of the internet has matured enough to solve many these obstacles.
The main problem is that which the internet offers solve. Access anything from a web browser, so that you can't physically destroy your data if you wanted to. This is awesome. I can personally attest to a sad amount of data lost simply outgrowing machines, if not a failed drive. But simply maintaining the files and folders themselves can becomes a hindrance to it's longevity. I might think now that any papers from school days would be better off trashed. But if it were archived and just a search, or click away, yet private and secure, there's no reason not to keep everything.
Now that I'm making a full effort to overcome the problem before me, I'll be writing a lot more. Hopefully the beginning to something new and creative.
Carpe diem
This website and publishing platform will server as a portal for my life online.
A lifelog.
All of the photos from my iPhone, location checkin-ins, tweets, status updates, essays, and articles just to start. The incredible power of the iPhone to provide geo timestamped input instantly online from anywhere, is only the beginning of what technology will be able to record and tell us about ourselves.
In my mind, having all of this self published content residing primarily among so many other networks is unfortunate.
The reality of crashing hard drives, or sites going down, or the lack of data portability and durability in general, has prevented me from freely creating and inputing data as I need.
So from today on I am attempting to free my mind from blocks to creativity.
The architecture of the internet has matured enough to solve many these obstacles.
The main problem is that which the internet offers solve. Access anything from a web browser, so that you can't physically destroy your data if you wanted to. This is awesome. I can personally attest to a sad amount of data lost simply outgrowing machines, if not a failed drive. But simply maintaining the files and folders themselves can becomes a hindrance to it's longevity. I might think now that any papers from school days would be better off trashed. But if it were archived and just a search, or click away, yet private and secure, there's no reason not to keep everything.
Now that I'm making a full effort to overcome the problem before me, I'll be writing a lot more. Hopefully the beginning to something new and creative.
Carpe diem