Yesterday I overheard two guys talking in the grocery store:
I am more of a John Lennon than you are.
The response?
My hair has more volume, therefore I am.
A brief, informal argument. Halloween-themed, I presume.
Yesterday I overheard two guys talking in the grocery store:
I am more of a John Lennon than you are.
The response?
My hair has more volume, therefore I am.
A brief, informal argument. Halloween-themed, I presume.
Tags: informal argumentation, John Lennon, overheard
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Thanksgiving weekend doesn’t really register in Europe. But this year it will for me: I’m going to Amsterdam for Quantified Self Europe, since I’m lucky enough to have a scholarship covering conference fees.
Today I proposed two talks:
Ironically, self-surveillance was an academic interest of mine before it became a personal one: Back in 2009, Nathan Yau and I wrote a paper for the ASIST Bulletin about self-surveillance (PDF) [less pretty in HTML]. It helped interest me in the Semantic Web, too: putting data in standard formats would make it easier to make data-driven visualizations, so lifetracking and the quantified self movement is a great usecase for the (social) Semantic Web. QS also shows how privacy cuts both ways and could provide an early-adopter audience for the kind of fine-grained privacy tools a colleague is developing.
(A first reply to Nic’s encouragement)
Tags: lifetracking, panopticon, privacy, proposals, Quantified Self, self-surveillance, sousveillance, surveillance
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