Comments on: Questions of Lifestreaming http://jacob.kramer-duffield.com/2008/01/27/questions-of-lifestreaming/ JKD's periodic thoughts on identity, technology and democracy Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:34:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: MLE http://jacob.kramer-duffield.com/2008/01/27/questions-of-lifestreaming/#comment-21 MLE Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:58:02 +0000 http://kramerduffield.wordpress.com/?p=10#comment-21 It's the old historian's conundrum--there is a infinite amount of data in a single lifespan/year/month/day/moment that sits before us. The fun starts when we decide what hone in on. Then we can argue about the relevancy, make up stories about why it matters and make connections in fun ways. Its almost more fun to see how others do it with our lives than to do it with ourselves. The unreliability of our own narrative is built in...but everyone faces that problem. In another context, the paparazzi have provided a nice lifestream of celebrities. They have their favorite themes (preggers?, she wore what?, drugs or booze or crazy? gay? doing it?) but even with all the pics and blather do we really ever know another person. Or ourselves. No paparazzi...stop it some more! It’s the old historian’s conundrum–there is a infinite amount of data in a single lifespan/year/month/day/moment that sits before us. The fun starts when we decide what hone in on. Then we can argue about the relevancy, make up stories about why it matters and make connections in fun ways.

Its almost more fun to see how others do it with our lives than to do it with ourselves. The unreliability of our own narrative is built in…but everyone faces that problem.

In another context, the paparazzi have provided a nice lifestream of celebrities. They have their favorite themes (preggers?, she wore what?, drugs or booze or crazy? gay? doing it?) but even with all the pics and blather do we really ever know another person. Or ourselves.

No paparazzi…stop it some more!

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