i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Here's another attempt at attempt at a MyLifeBits project. He only does it for a week, but he includes his daily conversations as well. He doesn't seem to offer many new insights into the issues surrounding capturing every possible ounce of digital data. He mentions that he doesn't know why he would want to listen to a week's worth of digital audio, except for maybe when he's 80 (yet doesn't acknowledge that he might not be able to sort out what week he wanted to listed to without good metadata). 

He does mention how awkward it is for other people to be recorded by you, from friends over lunch to strangers jogging. He also noted that it changed the way people talked to him, as if they had to say consequential things like give historical information about the neighborhood. One friend even contacted him later to ask him to delete their conversation. 

I like his point at the end of the article, that capturing some everyday things (though not ALL of them), can be more interesting years down the road than big event pictures:

I tend to take photos and videos at important events -- vacations, weekend outings, weddings. But some things that seem banal turn out more interesting: What your apartment looks like, the streets you drive on, your cat pushing his water dish into the wall like a hockey puck. Those boring-sounding things -- which you really shouldn't post online and bore other people with -- can be important components of an e-memory.