Reclaiming my river
I want to own my data. All of it. Period.
Rather than relying on external sites, services and aggregators, I'm going to try and use my blog as the dumping ground for the meta I speweth into the river. I realize that there is no silver bullet or perfect solution for this, but I'm hoping that with a few new tools, APIs, services, and techniques, I can piece together a reasonably complete archive. Once I have the archive, I can continue work on the LifeSplicing Engine I conceived a few years back.
Just an early sketch from a couple years ago.
To start, I'm looking at the Lifestream WP plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lifestream/) to see how many services I can pipe in for free. For services, sites, and data sources that don't readily make themselves available, I've got a few ideas I want to try using some RSS/ATOM/OPML trickery to normalize the floe.
This is likely going to be a very messy, noisy, and disruptive exercise. Please forgive any unwanted noise I spill into the river and remember that you can always block/delete me from your social graph if I become too much of an annoyance.
Whoisi is a nice shiny new aggregator thingamajiggr
I highly recommend you go to http://whoisi.com and type in your name, handle, whatever you use online as your username. If nothing comes back, create a new entry for yourself. I suggest you use your real name. you can add your aliases, alter egos, and imaginary friends later.
Then start searching for friends. If your friends aren't on there yet, you can fill in their details for them. It's like that whole community driven wikipedia-like model thingy.
Here are links to the origins of Whoisi. Here's a blog post that explains things in a lot more detail. All in all, I'd say this is some very nice new socnet tech. I approve.
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