Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week marks the 20th anniversary of when I first started writing online and published my first blog post. In 2010, I released my first open-source project: an unofficial Fitbit API written in Perl. At the time, I had no grand vision—just curiosity and a desire to document my thoughts and pursue my passion across…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been busy working on my Quantified Self-related interests: working on my personal tracking projects and organizing the QS Los Angeles meetups. Yesterday I gave a show & tell presentation on my experiences with life logging and location tracking. Many of you who read the blog are probably…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesA month ago around this time I was anxiously awaiting the first annual Quantified Self conference in Mountain View, CA. This was a fantastic conference on many levels and, although a little late, deserves a future post detailing the great sessions, people, and companies who were there. I didn’t have an official speaking session, but…
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThis weekend I decided to wrap up a couple cool knowledge management “hacks” and share some code on GitHub. I primarily use the Firefox Scrapbook plugin to save all web pages of interest and use it as a general “digital snippet” repository. Since I started using Scrapbook in 2006 there have been a number of…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFound an intriguing post and powerpoint presentation on MyLifeBits, a Microsoft Research project led by Gordon Bell. MyLifeBits was inspired by Vannevar Bush‘s hypothetical Memex computer system. The project includes full-text search, text and audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The “experimental subject” of the project is computer scientist Gordon Bell, and the project will try…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve had some down time the last couple days, and figure it was time to cleanup my public project list. Most of my work this last year has been solely focusing on building my own Personal Knowledge Management system – my Personal Memex. I’ve written a number of articles in recent months focusing on open…
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 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 has influenced the development of subsequential hypertext and intellect augmenting computer systems. Bush’s vision for the memex extended far beyond a mechanism…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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 open source applications/tools, to act as a personal knowledge manager and learning aid. I’ve also been evaluating a fantastic…
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