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LifeloggingI am Apollo Lemmon and this is my lifestream. I invite you to join me in my exploration of an integral life. I am focused on discovering what it means to live a life rooted in integral consciousness and I explore spirituality, art, community, technology, fitness and other aspects of a fully engaged life. I am now living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
I can always be reached at apollo@apollolemmon.com
The case for digitally-driven stupidity assumes we'll fail to integrate digital freedoms into society as well as we integrated literacy. This assumption in turn rests on three beliefs: that the recent past was a glorious and irreplaceable high-water mark of intellectual attainment; that the present is only characterized by the silly stuff and not by the noble experiments; and that this generation of young people will fail to invent cultural norms that do for the Internet's abundance what the intellectuals of the 17th century did for print culture. There are likewise three reasons to think that the Internet will fuel the intellectual achievements of 21st-century society.
Today, Google unveiled the Google Font Directory and the Google Font API to help bring dynamic and selective typefaces to the web.
The issues surrounding fonts and the web are complicated and can be tricky to navigate. Google (
) is hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate more distinctive typefaces into their designs.
Google’s cross-browser solution is similar to what companies like Typekit and Fontdeck are doing, that is, providing users with a library of available fonts that they can easily embed into their sites. Typekit has partnered with lots of commercial foundries and is priced affordably for designers who want to use lots of commercial typefaces legally.
Google’s solution is unique in that it is comprised of open source fonts. Google’s Font API can be integrated into websites using either HTML or using a JavaScript WebFont Loader co-developed with Typekit.
While Google’s font library isn’t as robust as some competing solutions, it is open source. In fact, the fonts in the library can even be downloaded and used in other ways including print.
I’m a big fan of Typekit and think it provides a really excellent solution for consumer use of dynamic typefaces on the web while also keeping foundries in business. Hopefully Google’s new Font API will help further the cause of improving type on the web.
Roughly one in five people who access the internet already use Firefox, and today’s launch of Firefox 3 takes the browser to new levels of speed, ease of use, security, functionality and expandability that should only increase those numbers. I’ve been using beta and release candidate versions leading up to Firefox 3 and can say with certainty that it is leaps and bounds ahead of all the other major browsers and even its predecessor, Firefox 2.
A quick look at the new features gives a glimpse of the power Firefox 3 packs, but the fact it uses your hardware better than before with better memory use and page rendering means the experience is noticeably better than before for every task we do online.
If you download Firefox 3 in the next day you will be taking part in setting a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours while improving your internet experience. As I’m writing this, 1,891,865 have already downloaded it today.
For more on Firefox 3, check out the following links:
Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3
Why You Should Download Firefox 3 Right Now
Top 10 Firefox 3 Features
As we create content across the internet, whether it’s twittering and tumbling, uploading photos, recording bookmarks, or blogging, it becomes increasingly valuable to have a way to aggregate all our content in one place. Lifestreaming is an answer to this need for a coherent and unified presentation of our online lives. A Lifestream grabs the RSS feeds we create at most sites we participate at and collects them on one page in chronological order, allowing a quick look at everything we are doing online.
I’ve created a lifestream for myself at the website that serves as my main identity online, Apollo Lemmon . com. There I am currently sharing blog entries from Frozen Truth and Zaadz, twits and tumbles from Tumblr, photos from Picasa, links through del.icio.us, interesting fashion and gadgets through Stylefeeder, and music I listen to at Last.fm. I used wp_simplelife, a superb plugin for WordPress, to create the stream and now just dive in and do my normal internet activity and it collects it all for me.
Lifestreaming is a public manifestation of the more inclusive and private LifeLogging, which I’ve written about before, and is an advancement I have a lot of hope for.
The value of including lifelogging in our lives has potential to be immense. Medical use alone could improve our lives greatly, allowing doctors greater access to various symptoms of pathologies. Having an aid to our natural memory would be welcome, especially to those suffering memory loss. Parsing the data could even provide us with recommendations for where to eat, reminders of friends we have been neglecting and a host of other life-enhancing features. It’s a transhumanist dream becoming a reality.
via “LifeLogging“
If you are interested in creating your own stream, I do recommend wp_simplelife, but there are a lot of options out there, and many are collected at Lifestream Blog.