[Personal_archives] Weird personal recordkeeping

[RICKBARRY at aol.com]

Weird may be an overstatement for some of these newer Web technologies for  
very delimited kinds of personal recordkeeping. And it isn't to say that some  
may emerge as helpful to the development of personal digital archives, but for 
 those interested in how the Web has blossomed a string of personal 
recordkeeping  sites that apparently a fairly large number of people are experimenting 
with,  see the below story in the Washington Post of a few days ago. In the 
interest of  breaking any "fair usage" practices, I've only included the first 
few  paragraphs. And keep in mind that the Post retains most (not all) of its  
articles on the Web for free access 14 days, it will likely go into its 
enormous  (back to 1875) pay-per-view digital archives another 10 days or so. There 
is an  important message though in how we have to anticipate and keep tuned to 
the  ever changing technologies impacting on both institutional and  
personal/manuscript archives.
 
Rick Barry
_www.mybestdocs.com_ (http://www.mybestdocs.com)  
 
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_http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR20080908026
81.html_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802681.html)  
 
 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/?nav=globaltop) 
 
Bytes of Life
For Every Move, Mood and Bodily Function,  There's a Web Site to Help You 
Keep Track
   
By _Monica Hesse_ 
(http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/monica+hesse/) 
Washington Post Staff Writer  
Tuesday, September 9, 2008; Page C01  
 
When San Francisco couple Brynn Evans and Chris Messina heard of a new Web  
site called BedPost, they registered an account before the site was even out of 
 beta. BedPost was created to map users' sex lives online -- everything from  
partner to duration of the encounter to descriptive words, which could later 
be  viewed as a tag cloud.  
 
Relationships and one-night stands alike, condensed to spare, inflexible data 
 in a way that might make the average user uncomfortable. Or simply baffled.  
But for Evans, a grad student studying cognitive science, and Messina, a Web  
entrepreneur, the site was just what they needed.  
After all, they already use project-management site Basecamp to chart the  
nonsexual parts of their relationship.  
They use location tracker BrightKite.com to study where they've been.  
They track their driving habits on MyMileMarker.com, their listening habits  
on Last.fm, and their Web-surfing habits, to the minute, on RescueTime.com.  
....   
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(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/interact/longterm/talk/copy.htm?nav=globebot)  1996- 2008 The Washington Post  Company  
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