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Recollect: Archive Your Online Life

By on November 11, 2012 in Archival, Industry

Recollect, a new California-based startup of three former Flickr employees, launched into public beta on October 25th promising to archive everything you do online. The service, which first made waves on the Internet with its archive of Tweets from the wildly popular XOXO Festival, allows users to collect their social media activity into one downloadable archive.

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SXSW 2012 Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death

By on March 15, 2012 in Archival, Cultural

Another SXSW has come and gone. Now that I’m back home and in withdrawal from the breakfast tacos, brisket and free drinks, I took a moment to reflect on my panel, Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death. Speaking at SXSW is always a thrill, and this year was no exception. My goal with the panel was to provide [...]

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iPhone App Releases Family Photos From Shoebox Purgatory

By on November 13, 2011 in Archival, Technical

New iPhone application enables individuals to quickly digitize and archive photographs. It’s time to find the shoebox of photos in your closet. A new iPhone application from a San Francisco-based start-up takes photo scanning mobile. 1000memories released Shoebox on October 27 with the promise of helping users tackle the often-massive task of scanning family photographs. [...]

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Now Our Memories Can Live Forever

By on August 17, 2011 in Archival, Video

Jonathan Good over at 1000Memories shared his TEDx San Francisco talk with me today. He did a great job presenting the vision of a future where people are remembered for more than their name, but for their story and experiences. This is actually one of the primary reasons that I’m concerned with the preservation of [...]

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QR Codes, Microchips In Cemeteries

By on August 15, 2011 in Archival, Cultural, Video

Would you want a QR code on your headstone? That was a question posed via an email from Adele McAlear. Quiring Monuments is now offering just that with its “Living Headstone” line of memorial products. Cemetery visitors with smartphones can read the QR code and visit a memorial website to learn more about the deceased. [...]

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Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death – SXSW 2012

By on August 7, 2011 in Archival, Technical

Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death is the panel I’ve proposed for SXSW 2012. In short we’ll talk about how we can archive our digital content so that it can be preserved and experienced in the future. I’ve asked a great set of panelists to join me: John Romano, The Digital Beyond Bill LeFurgy, Library [...]

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Robot panelists, AI, and the Future of Identity – SXSW 2012

By on August 7, 2011 in Archival, Cultural, Technical

In the future, we aren’t going to fight the robots, we’re going to become the robots. In fact, it may be even sooner — like, now. We’ll have two AI-powered panelists taking questions from the audience. Oh, we’ll have some great biological panelists, too. They’ll discuss artificial intelligence, digital avatars, and the future of identity. [...]

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Digital legacy presented at TED Global 2011

By on August 2, 2011 in Archival, News, Video

Adam Ostrow, the editor-in-chief of Mashable, presented After your final status update last month at TED Global 2011. We’re pleased that the topic of digital legacy is getting attention on a respected, global stage. Adam mentions several services listed on our site, including 1000Memories and If I Die. Adam’s vision for the potential future of [...]

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Historypin: A Digital Legacy for the World

By on July 13, 2011 in Archival

You can’t spend much time thinking about your digital afterlife without considering personal archiving and how you’ll preserve your family mementos for future generations. In fact lot’s of people are working to help individuals do just that, including the Library of Congress and online services like 1000 Memories and Chronicle of Life. Today I stumbled [...]

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Preserving Personal Legacy in the Digital Age

By on June 28, 2011 in Archival

I’ve been on the road (and in the air) over the last few weeks to speak at the Library of Congress for the annual Federal Library and Information Center Committee Forum and on Beaver Island, MI for the annual meeting of the Michigan Archival Association. For both of these events I presented Preserving Personal Legacy [...]

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