Self-surveillance

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…

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…