Comments for Jacob Kramer-Duffield thinks

Comment on Media Lab! by Dave

Dave — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:36:44 +0000

Also check out the Aesthetics and Computation Group. Oh, and tell me about it so I can live vicariously through you :p

http://acg.media.mit.edu/

Comment on Questions of Lifestreaming by MLE

MLE — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:58:02 +0000

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!

Comment on Beyond Beacon by Digital Red Tape and American Curmudgeonry « Jacob Kramer-Duffield thinks

Digital Red Tape and American Curmudgeonry « Jacob Kramer-Duffield thinks — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:50:55 +0000

[...] mirrors directly something I’ve written about in a slightly different context and in slightly more geeky terms, but the bottom line is the same - [...]

Comment on Open LifeBits by Terrell

Terrell — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:40:49 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. I think there’s a load of unanswered questions - like you say. Ripe for the picking.

Let’s sit down and work on some scenarios where a personal lifebits situation plays out. Let’s find some holes and document them. As real world as we can make them.

Comment on Beyond Beacon by Terrell

Terrell — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:04:42 +0000

First!

Congrats on the new blog.

I think you’re right - we’re headed to a time when regulation will be needed (if not already). The problem is, of course, that government is designed to be slow, to make saner, more deliberate, informed decisions… and technology rages ahead regardless. Until the legal barriers are in place, I prefer to opt-out as much as possible. The laws will eventually get written - but I don’t want them written in response to the snafu that uncovers MY data…