Self-surveillance

Personal data collection keeps getting easier and more efficient. Much of what was…

I tracked steps and sleep for the past month wearing the Jawbone UP24…

Visits, a research project by Alice Thudt, Dominikus Baur, and Sheelagh Carpendale from…

Edyn, a new project on Kickstarter, aims to make gardening easier by tracking…

Bruce Feiler for The New York Times describes his concern and distaste for…

The MIT Media Lab Playful Systems group is working on an experiment in…

How much caffeine can you consume during the day and still fall asleep…

Nicholas Felton, Drew Breunig, and Friends of the Web released Reporter for iPhone.…

The Weightless Project gives you another reason to use your Jawbone or Fitbit…

A recently divorced woman is using her personal data — phone logs, emails,…

NYU ITP graduate student Federico Zannier collected data about himself — online browsing,…

It wasn’t long ago that sensors and personal tracking seemed like pure nerdery.…

Today might be pi day, but yesterday was Feltron Report day. The theme…

Self-tracking devices are all the rage these days. I went to the Apple…

Chris Dancy likes to track facets of his life. A lot. Above is…

My friends just got this for me, and it’s pretty much the perfect…

Remember photographer Noah Kalina? He took a picture of himself every day for…

Dominic Basulto parallels the urban metrosexual to those who collect personal data. The…

Leave it to Robert Krulwich to bring us back to life in the…

Aaron Parecki, co-creator of location platform Geoloqi, has collected his location every few…

Stephen Wolfram examines his archive of personal data from emails to keystrokes to…

The quantified self movement continues: This may sound creepy, but tens of thousands…

When Nicholas Felton headed over to Facebook last year, I thought we’d seen…

Sometimes power dunks don’t get much credit, because it’s hard to see on…

There are a lot of ways to collect your location, whether it’s for…

AntiMap is an open source toolset that lets you record movements with your…

Personal data collection can be a tough sell at times, but with the…

My pending thesis is on personal data collection (i.e. quantified self, personal informatics,…

FInding himself in a new town, with a new job, Tim Clark started…

Nice piece from NYT on seeing your life in data: “There’s going to…