At the last Bay Area QS Show&Tell, Mike Kirkwood of Polka gave a terrific status update about Open Mobile Health Exchange (OMHE), a microsyntax for people and machines. [The] goal is to have a microsyntax that allows applications and devices and share streams of information…. Multiple things can come into one person’s stream,and we will…
With apologies for the slow pace of getting these videos posted to the web site, today I bring you a video of a mind-blowing presentation by Ben Lipkowitz of his life-logging project at the last QS Show&Tell. As usual, this is a raw documentary record, made on the fly, so don’t be surprised by the…
Do you have a story about how your self-tracking project has affected your life? If so, I’d like to hear it. I’m working on a long magazine story about the Quantified Self, much more detailed than the short essay published in Wired last year. (“Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life“) For this story I’m…
Please join organizer Michael Nagle and the pioneering members of the new Boston Quantified Self group at their first Show&Tell on Wednesday, March 3. Full details here: Quantified Self Boston Michael and some collaborators have started a collective of community scientists called sprout, where the first Show&Tell is being hosted. You can find out more…
At the the Bay Area QS Show&Tell #11, Maren Connary gave a follow-up talk that explored how her detailed life log, which she keeps on paper in thick binders, could be enhanced by a digital life logging system. You can’t see much of what she is talking about in this video, because the images are…
This is a pre-announcement of what looks to be a service to connect the iPhone to any fitness and health self-tracking device that uses the ANT+ low power wireless protocol. In lay terms: this means that you should be able to get a bunch of things to talk to your iPhone that couldn’t before, including…
I found the following announcement from Tech-On via a tweet by Scot Kozicki, and found it very entertaining. A company called WIN Human Recorder Co Ltd has launched a new device to collect multiple streams of biometric data. There are all kinds of reasons to be skeptical of this version of the universal biometric collection…
Robin Barooah presented his new meditation tracker, called “Equanimity” at the recent QS Show&Tell hosted by MedHelp. A meditation practice is a powerful tool for increased well being and yet, for something so simple and cost-free, it surprisingly difficult to maintain. The problem of “resistance” in meditation is well known. Even people with long years…
We’ve been asked by fans of QS about organizing QS Show&Tell meetings in their own cities. (Along with the Bay Area QS Show&Tell, there is a thriving New York QS Show&Tell, and new Boston QS Show&Tell just getting going.) Below is a basic FAQ about organizing a meeting of your own. While much of it…
We are trying a new approach to cataloging the many tips we’ve received about valuable resources related to the Quantified Self. We’re going to be using Delicious to tag the links. Self-quantifier extraordinaire Mark Carranza has volunteered to to take the tag stream and munge it into into a better, more useful resource list. But…
As we get ready for another big Bay Area QS Show&Tell, I thought I would post some tips for people planning to present. Feel free to add other tips in the comments. These meetings continue to be really fun and inspiring. Now that we are getting bigger, it is probably best to email if you…
Our tenth Show&Tell had about 100 people gathering at the offices of Wired magazine in San Francisco. Our host was Thomas Goetz, Wired’s executive editor and author of the upcoming book The Decision Tree. We had a great setting for our biggest meeting yet. Heartfelt thanks to Thomas, Philip Ferrato, Erica Jewell, and everybody who…
QS folks who have been interested in and contributing to the creation of a new data commons: you may want to check out Factual. Factual is a Los Angeles startup whose goal is to host any kind of quantitative data in a convenient, open, and mashable architecture. It was created by Gil Elbaz, and launched…
We’ve been working on a page that contains links to all the resources mentioned on the blog, presented at the QS Show&Tell meetups, or sent in as tips by members of our group. Special thanks to Alexandra Carmichael of CureTogether for helping to put this list together! Please visit the page and add your suggestions…
New York area QS readers should drop by the NY Quantified Self Show&Tell#3 tonight at Smart Design. Steve Dean, who launched the New York meeting, has a great program lined up. Here’s his description, from the New York QS Meetup site. If you join the New York MeetUp, you can RSVP, and you will be…
The QS Show&Tell #9 was very fun and interesting. Here is a quick recap with links. We met at Stanford courtesy of Martha Russell of Stanford’s MediaX, and the evening began with Martha’s intro to her program, which links visionary research to industry applications. A list of fall seminars at MediaX shows a bit of…
Gilles Chatellier, ‘Feasibility Study of N-of-1 Trials With Blood Pressure Self-MonitoringHypertension, 25 (2): 294 – Hypertension I measure blood pressure at home. Unfortunately, it is easy to become bored with this procedure, and neglect it. In fact, it is more fun to wonder why measuring blood pressure is so boring than actually measuring blood pressure,…
At this week’s Bay Area QS Show&Tell we had a packed house at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto. The recap below is powered by Mark Carranza’s incredible memory experiment, described in the last post. I’ve used Mark’s work to refresh my own memory so that I could describe what happened last week…
Mark Carranza has been keeping a list of his ideas since 1984. His list has more than a million entries, with more than 7 million connections between entries. Although the media window above appears to contain a video of Mark’s talk at QS #3, Mark preferred that MX not be shown yet, so what you…
Complete notes and reference links from Monday night’s terrific QS Show&Tell will be up later in the week, with an assist from Mark Carranza’s amazing idea archive. In the meantime, Steve Brown has shared the slides from his rapid-fire talk about 3banana. Steve had the misfortune of going last during an incredible, crowded meeting, and…
