Self-surveillance

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…

With the success of FitBit and the current wave of self-tracking, it was…

Cartographer Andy Woodruff documents all the places he goes, resulting in the pretty…

Zachary Seward for the Wall Street Journal gives some thought to what he…

In his five-minute TED talk (below), Gary Wolf describes the quantified self and…

Your email says a lot about who you are, who you interact with,…

Auger Loizeau, in collaboration with Reyer Zwiggelaar and Bashar Al-Rjoub, describe their smart-home…

Personal data fascinates me. I collect data about myself mostly as a way…

Take a moment and think off all the data you put other there…

The quantified self sounds great on paper. The task: keep track of important…

When you ride your bicycle around, I bet you always wish for two…

Gary Wolf, of Wired and The Quantified Self, describes personal data collection and…

Jacobo Zanella makes a color palette every day, based on the clothes he’s…

Frederik Seiffert provides this nifty tool, LastHistory, to visualize your Last.fm listening history.…

Anatoly Zenkov provides this nifty tool (Mac and PC) to track your mouse…