Creeva’s World 2.0

Never — it’s still to early to be late.

It seems my arti­cle on life caching struck a chord with some­one. I’m glad some­one at least shares my under­stand­ing on this need. He is just start­ing to search and find his lifestream­ing needs and tools, and this really is the best time to start.

I left him this com­ment on his site (though his com­ment sys­tem man­gled my for­mat­ting and I’ve fixed it here):

I’m glad you enjoyed my arti­cle — I have a few follow-ups to that arti­cle that I need to pound out — such as dif­fer­ent ways of actu­ally caching the data. I can say read­ing a cou­ple of your ear­lier that you are not late to the life stream­ing party.

While I agree life stream­ing is use­ful, impor­tant, and mostly neat. Life caching is the evo­lu­tion­ary tran­si­tion that will need to occur as the data porta­bil­ity move­ment takes place. Tools unfor­tu­nately to do any type of life caching are ter­ri­ble at this time. I have some word­press plu­g­ins that I ‘m cut­ting my PHP learn­ing teeth on that have lots of bugs that I need to stream­line — if the object of most of these plu­g­ins came from the lifestream­ing design instead of spam blog design (repur­pos­ing RSS feeds can go both ways) then this small fac­tion of belief in sav­ing our own data can grow.

Dang — some­times I’m just too long winded.

P.S. Lifestream­ing is becom­ing a verb maybe in a few more years it will be up there with w00t and in the dictionary.

On another one of his posts I left this comment:

I’ll give you the fact that your ear­lier thoughts on life stream­ing is cor­rect — it is too much information.

That being said — you need to look at who this is for. Most peo­ple don’t care about every­thing I do and I’ve pruned my RSS feeds that I give to the pub­lic down so they only get the use­ful information.

I archive and save this data for myself — and like the pic­tures peo­ple take of their chil­dren grow­ing up, there is never a thing as too much information.

It may be too much infor­ma­tion at this point in time — but when per­sonal data min­ing takes place in a few years as the next hot trend — and archive of this data will be very use­ful to find trends of dif­fer­ent points of your life that you may oth­er­wise for­get (or wished you would have for­got­ten but google reminds every­one anyways).

Over at the lifestream blog the author linked to this orig­i­nal arti­cle from here — but while sees use­ful­ness in life caching still believes in the impor­tance of life stream­ing.   I don’t think you can truly do one with­out the other, but with this newer con­cept catch­ing on there is no good way to do it yet.  I left him this comment:

 We can agree to dis­agree on the impor­tance of life caching — but with­out accu­rate and long term archiv­ing of data (life caching) — the lifestream setups most peo­ple cur­rently will only be fleet­ing since most use RSS feeds in a tran­si­tional phase of their life stream.  As the RSS feed items expire they are removed from the lifestream.   Even sites like dandelife.com that does the best job of stor­ing data for a lifestream only keeps tran­si­tional data from the aux­il­iary streams and even­tu­ally it expires.

I really hope the indus­try catches up with this idea — I’ll get at least one more of those promised life caching arti­cles out this week.