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September 04, 2004

Archiving everyday life

From TrendCentral:

Young people are consumed with archiving their lives through various means, whether it be a LiveJournal blog or an old-fashioned scrapbook. But they’re not just keeping track of what happened on their summer vacation; they’re seemingly turning the events of last weekend, or even last night, into a type of history for themselves and their circle of friends. Half of a night out is often spent documenting it. The ability to capture a memory with friends onto a phone and play it back immediately has turned reminiscing into a party pastime.

Nokia is getting in on this trend with a new mobile phone program called Lifeblog that automatically archives and organizes all mobile communications (e.g. text messages, sent photos and videos) for users to save, edit, search, and browse. ...

September 4, 2004 at 12:08 PM in Citizen media | Permalink

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