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A lifelogger is like one of those guys who always goes around with a camera, maybe attached to his baseball cap or his glasses, filming his every move to record it on his computer. Steve Mann has been the pioneer of lifelogging since 1994, when he started recording his daily life 24/24. In 1998, he went on to set up a lifeloggers’ community that now has over 20 000 members.
Lifelogger
Updated : Tuesday 30 March 2010
The lifelogger’s aim is more or less the same as someone writing their memoirs. He stores all the data on his daily life for his own personal use, and also of course to share with his friends or even pass on to future generations. It’s yet another way of thumbing your nose at mortality and guaranteeing eternal life, at least in the virtual world.
By extension, a lifelog can mean any kind of internet-based service, application, or website that lets you keep track of your activities online. It’s the memory of the content we put online and also what we receive, whether it’s photos, texts, videos or emails. The word is coming to mean much the same as a lifestream. On reflection, though, people are asking themselves if these automatic storage systems really are such a good idea. Should we be entrusting everything we do to the internet? How will our grandchildren react when they find out that Grandpa wasn’t above cruising the occasional porno site, or come across the vengeful emails from his exes?
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