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The fundamental problem of ‘owning’ user data « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior
What is more important, the rights of the mass, or the rights of the individual. In the western world we tend to assume an inverse relationship between individual rights and social control. More social control leads to less individual rights and vice versa. Marshall suggests that individual rights may be less important than the ‘greater cause’ of being able to provide more value to users if data is freely accessible.
privacy  socialnetworking  personal_data  personal  data  datamining  opinion  article  blog 
april 2009 by roel
Emerce - Homepage: Persoonsdata gemiddeld in '250 tot 500 bestanden'
Een beetje actieve burger op internet en in het maatschappelijk verkeer kan met persoonlijke data in duizenden bestanden staan. Van degene die probeert te ontsnappen ('de kluizenaar') blijft het aantal 'beperkt' tot 250. Het gemiddelde ligt naar een ruwe schatting op '250 tot 500 bestanden' per persoon.
privacy  online  artikel  emerce  personal  personal_data  datamining 
february 2009 by roel
WattzOn
WattzOn gives you tools to track your energy consumption, compare it to others' and understand its consequences in order to discover how to reduce your role in climate change.
energy  visualization  tool  analysis  environment  sustainability  green  personal  tracking  consumption  climatechange  climate 
december 2008 by roel
Squirrel - Personal Finance Application
Squirrel is a personal finance application for Mac OS X. It helps you track and plan your finances with ease. Powered by Mac OS X Leopard's most recent technologies, Squirrel features a powerful set of tools to allow you to manage your money from within a beautiful interface.
software  money  productivity  application  macosx  finance  personal 
november 2008 by roel
Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep
Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions.
wireless  wellness  tech  technology  statistics  visualization  personal  personal_data  tracking  hardware 
september 2008 by roel
23andMe - Beyond genetic testing: Personal DNA analysis and research for health, family, ancestry, and genealogy.
23andMe offers a high-density, custom genome scan. A small saliva sample of you DNA is processed The resulting data is then presented on a secure website using interactive tools that offer information about ancestry, inherited traits and disease risk. It provides you with hundreds of insights into your genetics, and these are regular updated.
science  research  medicine  personal  service  dna  genes  personal_data 
september 2008 by roel
Open Data Definition
Open Data Definition allows you to copy your data from one social network to another, keep track of your friends network and synchronise your data across services. Simple to use and trivial to implement, this is your fastest route to true data portability.
web2.0  standards  socialnetworking  socialsoftware  semanticweb  data  personal_data  personal 
august 2008 by roel
Where Do You See Your Future Beginning?: U Journaling Practice
"Today I want to bring to your attention an approach you can use personally if you really haven't a clue what you are meant to do -- if you don't even know where to start. It's an exercise in acquiring self-knowledge, designed by Otto Scharmer's Presencing Institute."
self_improvement  personal  development  research  psychology 
august 2008 by roel
Marc Canter - The Dawn of the PKB (Personal Knowledge Base)
Managing and keeping track of all the digital information relevant to your lifestyle is becoming an increasingly important issue. Whether it be for business or pleasure, family or health, internal or external use, we all have the need to categorize, store
knowledge  productivity  memory  history  personal  database  filesystem 
july 2008 by roel
megnut.com
a food blog by meg hourihan
food  blog  foodblog  recipes  cooking  personal 
june 2007 by roel

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