a looking-glass book

session 2

Minimal-Impact Audio-Based Personal Archives - Daniel P.W. Ellis & Keansub Lee

Passive Capture and Ensuing Issues for a Personal Lifetime Store - Jim Gemmell, Lyndsay Williams, Ken Wood, Gordon Bell and Roger Lueder

bolas, this audio lecture is for you. pretty cool, but he just said he still doesnt have the killer app for it yet. true that. it also seems like that darpa proposal is all over the place. i would be surprised at this point if there was anyone in the room who didnt apply for it. mr. fisher, i want to hear more.

ive got jitter installed now, so i think it might be time to look at making a patch and then exporting that out as an exe for systems. its not webbased, but that might be ok. esp as i dont have a flash developer yet.

anyone know of one who wants to work on a cool video ui for free? i cant promise money, but it is a cool cool thing they would be helping create. i can almost promise some level of exposure, based on the people's hands i was just shaking in regards to my project.

so he is just recording audio on an archos 20 gig drive. so he analyzed the audio at 1 minute intervals instead os something like 10ms. for the 'diary app', he is looking more at background noise instead of foreground.

i ought to talk to rachael and see if i can draw up a survey for people once they wear the system to see if/how their behavior changed. thats going to be important.

im also worried that the isight's mic isnt good enough. and it sucks in low light. but still.

also, the huge cup of coffee i just took in is kicking in. wow. no more sleepy tripp.

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sensecam wants to filter at capture time. so you get the flipbook thing. hm. drucker really thinks the isight is good, as opposed to the stills sensecam does. i think the sensecam can be a basic, bad framerate video camera. but if im not getting one to play with, its moot.

as a side note, the device is small. think gba sp size and shape. not that bad. no way to tag important moments though.

davis agreed i had to have it. i dont disagree, but to be honest, i keep forgetting this isight is on my head, given that, i dont know ill remember to hit a button. i want to wave my hand for important moments, but so far, it hasnt crossed my mind.

there are 12 sensecams right now. guess ill go beg during lunch. cant hurt. (oh and ken wood has said that he will put me in touch with the ex-producer from seacrest. so between that and bridget's help at ca, i think ill be able to explore reality tv a fair amount.)

sensecam people are doing a cross-cultural privacy study. he says that other cultures are just now getting used to the idea of privacy. important to remember that we arent the only culture and other ones function much differently.

rich, the coder of mylifebits, suggested looking for 'web recorders' for the mlb function i like of saving out every page you visit. unlike history hound, google desktop, etc etc, it doesnt use the cache. thats the real important part. so ill have to dig around later.

man, mylifebits is so hot. i love it. but its almost too much. i hope that a more useful/lightweight version can be built. itll make me want a pc again.

mlb thinks the killer app for pic and video is the screensaver. boy oh boy, i hope i can convince them they can do more. cause its neat, but so limited. esp when you dont have segmented video.