Archive Fever

16 December 2010

What were you thinking about on November 23rd, 2009? You probably have no idea, but Twitter might. What was your personal soundtrack to the summer of ’07? Ask Last.fm. Hit up Dopplr to find out how many miles you travelled last year, Foursquare for the Berlin bar that people you know check in to more than any other, or Facebook to see the photos of the last time you hung out with your best friend on the other side of the world.

Without deliberate planning, we have created amazing new tools for remembering. The real-time web might just be the most elaborate and widely-adopted architecture for self-archival ever created.

I’ve wanted something like this for ages – in fact, almost every time I come to redesigning this site my first thoughts are around the idea of making it timeline-based, across all the different medium I spew content out on, so you could scroll around and see what I tweeted, took photos of and blogged about in June 2009 (for example).

Sadly time has always got in the way…

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16 December 2010