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Curated News - In lifelogging, you find your statistical (and egotistical?) self - latimes.com

June 05, 2012

“Lifelogging is the practice of gathering personal data about oneself using computers, which can include everything from taking daily self-portraits, constant heart monitoring, or breaking the details of one’s daily existence into graphs and statistics. Out of health concern or curiosity, much of the practice is focused on the body.”

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Curated News - On the Progression of the Quantified Self Movement Going Mainstream | Lifestream Blog

June 05, 2012

“the problem is that if you use several of these devices the data is being stored in silos for each of the device maker’s services. Step 2 on the way to being able to glean valuable correlations and information from this data will require it to be aggregated in a single location.”

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Curated News - On the Progression of the Quantified Self Movement Going Mainstream | Lifestream Blog

June 05, 2012

“With the personal activity and health data that is spurring the Quantified Self movement I think it will initially be the discovery of ways to improve our lives based on our own personal data that will initially attract mainstream users and then once people become more comfortable sharing their personal data with others we will see other innovations occur based on the big data sets that are analyzed across many people.”

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Curated News - Software Screening Rejects Job Seekers - WSJ.com

June 03, 2012

“As anyone who has applied for a job lately knows, the trick is parroting all the words in the job description but not just copying and pasting the text, which leads the software to discard the application. It’s a whole new skill: Clearing the software hurdle is as important as being able to do the job.”

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Curated News - Software Screening Rejects Job Seekers - WSJ.com

June 03, 2012

“With so much talent looking for work, why not get what you really need? Here’s why: Managers pile up so many requirements that they make it nearly impossible to find anyone who fits.”

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Curated News - Software Screening Rejects Job Seekers - WSJ.com

June 03, 2012

“For every story about an employer who can’t find qualified applicants, there’s a counterbalancing tale about an employer with ridiculous hiring requirements,” he says. In many companies, software has replaced recruiters, he writes, so “applicants rarely talk to anyone, even by email, during the hiring process.”

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Curated News - Predictions and Fears From the Experts - NYTimes.com

June 03, 2012

“The other is the “brain map” — a technology that maps out every neural connection in your mind and then, effectively, stores your brain on your hard drive. That information — more than your DNA even — is you.”

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Curated News - Apps Aiming for Sharing Within Boundaries - NYTimes.com

June 03, 2012

“We should encourage Web and mobile services to lead with their privacy practices and let users vote with their feet,” wrote Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist in New York, in a recent blog post.”

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Curated News - The Measured Life - Technology Review

June 01, 2012

“As Gary Wolf, a journalist and cofounder of the Quantified Self, puts it, “It’s a trial that begins with one very important person: yourself.”

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Curated News - More bad news for Facebook, as site crashes — Tech News and Analysis

June 01, 2012

“But for a site with almost one billion users, Facebook has proven to be remarkably resilient. I expect we’ll soon hear from the company on what caused its latest problem, given its openness around engineering efforts. Remember, delivering five nines (99.999 percent) reliability — which means your site is down less than 5.26 minutes a year — on the web is hard, so hard it may indeed be a pipe dream.”

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