Jawbone UP API Discovery
November 28, 2011 – 9:42 am | 4 Comments

On Saturday I stopped by the Apple store and picked up an UP device by Jawbone. The UP is a wristband and iPhone app that will track your fitness and sleep activity and help encourage you to live a more active life style. As with most of my Quantified Self gadets (Fitbit, Zeo, Withings, Neurosky, etc.) my first reaction was to “free my data”. Similar to my initial journey with the Fitbit, I was inspired to find an “unofficial” way to get access to the data.

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Philosophy

Increasing number of articles dealing with philosophy and psychology. Topics include Integral philosophy, consciousness, and age old advice on how to live “the good life”.

Personal Development

Learn tips and tricks on GTD (Getting Things Done), goal setting, time management, and increasing your personal power.

Mind Mapping

Put mind mapping to use in your personal and professional life. Learn tips and techniques on enhancing creativity, accelerating learning, and increasing productivity.

Knowledge Management

My latest discoveries on personal knowledge management. Discover what PKM is all about, learn about the Semantic Web, and find out how to use Wikis to help track all of your important information.

Quantified Self

Quantified Self is a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking. There are number of posts on my device “hacking”, open source development, and my own quantified experiments.

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Tweet Tweet
August 9, 2008 – 5:49 pm | No Comment

OK, so last month I blogged about the proliferation of microblogging sites like Twitter, and how I just don’t get them! I received some great feedback on the post, and decided that I probably should give Twitter a try before I totally dismiss it.

Creating the Ultimate Personal Travel Journal
July 13, 2008 – 3:24 pm | 7 Comments
Creating the Ultimate Personal Travel Journal

Since I last posted about Vannevar Bush’s vision for a Personal Memex, I decided to focus my efforts on building an impressive personal travel journal, and share the results to illustrate the capabilities of a Memex.

Microblogging…. I Just Don’t Get It!
July 2, 2008 – 9:03 pm | 9 Comments
Microblogging…. I Just Don’t Get It!

You can call this an uninformed rant if you like, but I seriously can’t comprehend all the buzz that is surrounding the “MicroBlogging phenomenon”.

ThinkBase: Visual Semantic Wiki
June 5, 2008 – 11:02 pm | No Comment
Flash Slideshow Software
June 2, 2008 – 9:41 pm | No Comment
As We May Think: Creating Your Own Personal Memex
May 28, 2008 – 8:57 pm | One Comment

The memex ( “memory extender”) is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. The memex …

Fingers and Toes Making Friends with Each Other
February 26, 2008 – 11:53 pm | One Comment

I wanted to take a minute and share what I’ve been working on recently.
I’ve spent the last couple weeks setting up my new personal wiki.  My ultimate goal is to use a wiki, and other …

Turning Any Monitor Into a 3D VR Display
February 21, 2008 – 10:31 pm | No Comment