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Chad Crowe These sites are part of a growing movement, often called "lifelogging" or "lifetracking," of which Twitter is perhaps the most widely known.
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In this sense lifetracking resembles not diary-keeping or even blogging but a modern version of a favorite technology of 20th-century behavioral psychology: the cumulative recorder.
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Enthusiasts of lifetracking compare their quest for turning information into self-knowledge with the great diary-keepers of earlier eras, much as early bloggers did when that form first became popular.
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The philosophy behind lifetracking -- the idea that numbers don't lie -- is appealing to people already awash in personal data and eager for technological solutions to stubborn behavioral problems.
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Today, in a marvel of efficiency, lifetracking technology allows us to be both the frantic lab rats and the sedulously recording lab assistants.
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Unlike a traditional diary, however, lifetracking emphasizes the objective analysis of statistics rather than the impressionistic (and often self-serving) remembrance of activities past.
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If an old-fashioned diary is like an indulgent grandparent, then lifetracking sites are like no-nonsense accountants at tax time, tallying up your virtues and vices and presenting them with antiseptic authority.
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Hands on: getting started with Eclipse and Google App Engine, might muse a bit about lifetracking or the status of the American food system, and I'd love to collaborate on a session on how to wear scarves (dmsg me)
BarCamp 2008
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Hands on: getting started with Eclipse and Google App Engine, might muse a bit about lifetracking or the status of the American food system, and I'd love to collaborate on a session on how to wear scarves (dmsg me)
BarCamp 2008
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Hands on: getting started with Eclipse and Google App Engine, might muse a bit about lifetracking or the status of the American food system, and I'd love to collaborate on a session on how to wear scarves (dmsg me)
BarCamp 2008
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